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Silicon Valley Is Right—Our Jobs Are Already Disappearing

It's happening with the development of artificial intelligence, robotics, software and automation.

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A Massive AI Partnership Is Tapping Civil Rights and Economic Experts to Keep AI Safe

The Partnership is now the most high-profile, comprehensive, and mainstream organization considering how AI will shape our future.

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The Demon Voice That Can Control Your Smartphone

Researchers have created creepy sounds unintelligible to humans but still capable of talking to phones’ digital assistants.

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The EU Is Exploring Legal Personhood for Robots

For the time being, robots don’t need civil rights—they have a hard enough time walking, let alone marching—but the European Union doesn’t expect that to be the case forever.

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Video: A Steering Wheel for Self-Driving Cars

This gives white-knuckle driving a new meaning.

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Skills Your Kids Should Cultivate to Be Competitive in the Age of Automation

Perceptive and emotional AI is developing fast.

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Don’t Want a Robot to Steal Your Job? Be Creative

Cheap computing power and rapidly advancing AI mean that machines already outperform us on tasks that involve retaining, processing and repeating rule-based information. 

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If You’ve Been Stuck in an Airport Because of Delays Recently, You Already Know How Bad a Highly Automated Society Will Be

We, in the U.S. at least, live in a world where we often can’t talk to humans, even when we want to.

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Police Want to Know What Alleged Murderer’s Amazon Echo Heard, on the Night of the Crime

A reminder that our smart devices can also be used against us.

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In the Race to Build the Best AI, There’s Already One Clear Winner

Almost every major tech company is partnered up with Nvidia and uses its hardware.