Artificial Intelligence

A neural network comes out of the top of an ivory tower, above a crowd of people's heads. Some of them are reaching up to try and take some control and pull the net down to them. Watercolour illustration.

How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy

By Suresh Venkatasubramanian | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Capitol Hill with padlock hologram

To defend against malicious AI, the United States needs to build a robust digital immune system

By Ali Nouri | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

America’s AI action plan aims to gut regulation and expand manufacturing

By Frances Mack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The first US atomic rush was a bust. Will Trump’s big nuclear-for-AI plans fare any better?

By Chloe Shrager | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Energy

AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop.

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Abeba Birhane gives a keynote speech at the AI for Good Global Summit

AI for good, with caveats: How a keynote speaker was censored during an international artificial intelligence summit

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

US Capitol Building with a tree in the foreground

How the striking of a GOP regulatory ban will affect the global artificial intelligence race

By Bahar Gholipour | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Iranian anchorwoman in newsroom when Israeli strike hit the building

Israel and Iran exchange words along with weapons

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

President Trump and Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud walking on a lavender carpet during Trump's Gulf tour in May.

Trump’s AI gamble in the Gulf doesn’t put America first

By Steven Feldstein | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration of a building with people in windows and outlined in rectangles.

Government officials are letting AI do their jobs. Badly

By Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration of eyes looking at persons who are under spotlights

Trump’s immigration crackdown is built on AI surveillance and disregard for due process

By Adrian Shahbaz | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Human C12orf29 protein 3D structure predicted by AlphaFold

AI can accelerate scientific advance, but the real bottlenecks to progress are cultural and institutional

By Abi Olvera | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies