Artificial Intelligence
Why American Jobs Have a Higher Risk of Automation Than Jobs in Germany, the UK and Japan
You’ve been warned before—robots are coming for your American job.
Artificial Intelligence
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Says One of the Top Threats to US Jobs Is “Not Even on Our Radar Screen”
He believes it's too remote to even think about
Emerging Tech
This is the Job-Killer the Trump Team Should Worry About, Obama Adviser Says
Nextgov chatted with Terah Lyons, formerly an adviser to the federal chief technology officer.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots Are Coming to Your Home: Here's What to Expect
Robots hitting the market soon might one day be a part of your family.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots Won’t Take Your Job—They’ll Help Make Room For Meaningful Work Instead
A dire view of automation excludes a lot of the story.
Artificial Intelligence
A Rogue Robot is Blamed For Human Colleague’s Gruesome Death
Usually when people worry about machines and work, they are concerned automation will take away their livelihoods, not their lives.
Emerging Tech
When Robots Race, the Student Engineers Win
Surprisingly, an obstacle course for robots teaches practical skills.
Emerging Tech
The Fight Between Waymo and Uber Intensifies
After six weeks of brutally bad PR, the ridesharing giant is ratcheting up its defense.
Artificial Intelligence
The Optimist’s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse
Widespread unemployment due to technology has never materialized before.
Digital Government
A Bot That Identifies 'Toxic' Comments Online
A Google-funded algorithm flags messages that are likely to drive others away from a conversation.
Artificial Intelligence
Podcast: How the Government is Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work
While the private sector puts AI to use in eye-catching projects, the government is taking a different path.
Artificial Intelligence
Automation Is Coming For You Too
65 percent of survey respondents agreed that their job was safe from automation.
Artificial Intelligence
The Post-Human World
A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari
Cybersecurity
Could Segmentation Restore the Federal Cybersecurity Perimeter?
Using segmentation requires thinking about cybersecurity in a way almost completely opposite of tradition.
Artificial Intelligence
The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes, Says Bill Gates
It’s a striking position from the world’s richest man and a self-described techno-optimist who co-founded Microsoft.
Ideas
Why Don’t We See More Automation in Federal Networks?
Automation would cut the time from detection of cyberattacks to remediation from months to seconds.
Artificial Intelligence
Video: Look for This Robot Barista on Your Morning Commute
A different kind of handmade.
Emerging Tech
A Grocery Store Is Testing Squishy Robot Hands to Pack its Bags
We’re getting really close to completely automated deliveries.
Artificial Intelligence