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Artificial Intelligence
May 31, 2023
Matt Ford
ChatGPT Fought the Law, and the Law Won
Here is an object lesson in how not to use generative A.I.
May 18, 2023
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Says Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes Are Up
The high court’s ruling on the nature of “transformative” works of art could have major ramifications for artists working today—as well as the A.I. enthusiasts looking toward tomorrow.
May 18, 2023
Daniel Strauss
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Grace Segers
Tim Scott Tiptoes Toward 2024
PLUS: Lawmakers eye A.I., and a quick and dirty election round-up.
May 15, 2023
Grace Segers
Congress Is Racing to Catch Up With Artificial Intelligence
Lawmakers agree that the rapid evolution of this technology needs to be addressed—but they’re still getting up to speed on the details.
May 10, 2023
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Great A.I. Hallucination
Is the hype (and doomsaying) around generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT obscuring what the technology actually does—and its genuine limitations and dangers?
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
Magazine
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
Magazine
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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