Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

Between its water use, energy use, e-waste, and need for critical minerals that could better be used on renewable energy, A.I. could trash our chances of a sustainable future.

The ChatGPT developer is in chaos after the board dismissed its CEO on Friday.

The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.

Artificial intelligence once promised to make us healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or total annihilation.

Here is an object lesson in how not to use generative A.I.

Is the hype (and doomsaying) around generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT obscuring what the technology actually does—and its genuine limitations and dangers?

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.

Washington’s legal eagles have held that these technical entities are incapable of creating art. At least one chatbot we spoke with agrees.

Programs such as ChatGPT have been greeted with an unholy amount of hyperbole, but they just can’t live up to the hype.