Emerging Tech
Lawmaker: 'We Need to Speak the Truth' About Automation
Sen. Kamala Harris said lawmakers aren’t clear enough with constituents about the impending obsolescence of their jobs.
Ideas
How a Common Language for Cyber Threats Boosts Security
Speed is key when responding to cyber threats. Standardization and interoperability can help.
Emerging Tech
The Self-Driving Dilemma
Autonomous vehicles could spark a cleaner, cheaper urban mobility revolution—or they could make it tougher to combat sprawl, congestion, and climate change.
Artificial Intelligence
Automation Could Boost Federal Productivity—And Save $41B a Year
Federal employees could focus their attention complex tasks instead of email.
Artificial Intelligence
The Parts of America Most Susceptible to Automation
No, they’re not in the Rust Belt.
Artificial Intelligence
What Will We Do When Robots Have Taken Our Jobs?
Automation could affect our mental health as well as our salaries.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft’s New Head of Research Has Spent His Career Building Powerful AI—And Making Sure It’s Safe
Eric Horvitz wants to fundamentally change the way humans interact with machines.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots Don’t Have to Take Over Jobs in Order to Be a Problem for Workers
“I think full automation is a big red herring."
Artificial Intelligence
Can Scientific Discovery Be Automated?
Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to AI could change that.
Artificial Intelligence
People Are Scared of Artificial Intelligence For All the Wrong Reasons
According to one survey, people are most afraid of robots in their home.
Artificial Intelligence
Chatbots Have Entered the Uncanny Valley
When virtual assistants almost pass as human, they only seem more robotic.
Emerging Tech
I Built A Bot With Zero Coding Experience. So Can You.
Deloitte is selling federal agencies on automation and walked me through the process.
Emerging Tech
It’s Getting Harder And Harder to Tell a Self-Driving Car From a Regular One
As with smartphones, digital cameras, and most other technology, when demand increases, the size of the sensing technology gets more compact.
Artificial Intelligence
No One Is Prepared to Stop the Robot Onslaught. So What Will We Do When It Arrives?
Economists say somewhere between 9 percent and 47 percent of workers in the West could lose jobs to automation over the next two or so decades.
Artificial Intelligence
How A.I. Will Redefine Human Intelligence
Machines aren’t just infiltrating the human world, they’re altering our perception of what people can do.
Emerging Tech
A Problem That Keeps Warehouse Work From Being Fully Automated Has Just Been Solved
A startup called RightHand robotics recently began piloting technology that automates a task robots have previously struggled to master.
Artificial Intelligence
How Many Robots Does It Take to Replace a Human Job?
A new study looks at how recent technology innovation has affected workers thus far.
Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Agree on What AI is, Because Nobody Knows What the Term Really Means
There are generally two schools of thought when talking about whether software today is a form of artificial intelligence: literalists and generalists.
Emerging Tech
A Timeline of When Self-Driving Cars Will Be on the Road, According to the People Making Them
“It will happen in very discrete baby steps.”
Artificial Intelligence