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Artificial Intelligence
May 8, 2023
Thomas Geoghegan
The Best Safeguard Against Artificial Intelligence Is the Constitution
The president has the power to step in now before A.I. becomes a threat to national security.
March 30, 2023
Steve Israel
Here’s What Happened When ChatGPT Wrote to Elected Politicians
Cornell researchers used artificial intelligence to write advocacy emails to state legislators. The responses don’t bode well for democracy in the age of A.I.
March 3, 2023
Matt Ford
Artificial Intelligence Meets Its Worst Enemy: the U.S. Copyright Office
Washington’s legal eagles have held that these technical entities are incapable of creating art. At least one chatbot we spoke with agrees.
March 1, 2023
Alex Shephard
Artificial Intelligence Is Dumb
Programs such as ChatGPT have been greeted with an unholy amount of hyperbole, but they just can’t live up to the hype.
April 12, 2021
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Rumaan Alam
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Deceptively Simple Story of AI
Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?
March 8, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Sad Implosion of Google’s Ethical A.I.
The surveillance-capitalist giant fired some of its most popular researchers—and revealed its true colors in the process.
December 10, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Who Gets a Say in Our Dystopian Tech Future?
A.I. research scientist Timnit Gebru raised red flags about Google’s most exciting new tech. She says she was forced out for it.
March 20, 2019
Sam Bresnick
The Problem With Trying to Be Like China
Free-market conservatives in the U.S. seem newly fascinated by Chinese state-directed economic policy.
August 31, 2017
Navneet Alang
Turns Out Algorithms Are Racist
Artificial intelligence is becoming a greater part of our daily lives, but the technologies can contain dangerous biases and assumptions—and we're only beginning to understand the consequences.
May 12, 2016
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Moira Weigel
Flirting With Humanity
The search for an artificial intelligence smart enough to love.
December 10, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
It might be constitutional for a robot to run for president. What a relief.
October 4, 2014
Sophie McBain
Apocalypse Soon: Meet The Scientists Preparing For the End Times
September 12, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is What It Will Look Like When Robots Take All Our Jobs
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