Artificial Intelligence

Demonstrators call on countries to ban killer robots

The United States should drop its opposition to a killer robot treaty

By Lisa A. Bergstrom | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

The latest from AI research: automated fake news trolls

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photos by gloucester2gaza and Julian Hertzog via Wikimedia Commons. CY BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY 4.0. Stylized.

Top US Army official: Build AI weapons first, then design safety

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, What We’re Reading

An interactive look at the algorithm powering the justice system

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Trump deals Chinese high-tech firms a heavy blow—for now

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Energy Secretary Rick Perry with President Donald Trump.

When Rick Perry thinks about AI, he thinks about nuclear weapons

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

US missile tests. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

Strangelove redux: US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons

Fake faces generated by the StyleGAN algorithm developed by Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, and Timo Aila at NVIDIA via Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West. CC-BY-NC 4.0.

University bullshit experts: Fake face software signals a new era of AI-based BS

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The existential threat from cyber-enabled information warfare

By Herbert Lin | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Special Topics, Technology and Security

How YouTube was recommending kids’ videos to pedophiles

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photos by gloucester2gaza and Julian Hertzog via Wikimedia Commons. CY BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY 4.0. Stylized.

The United Nations and the future of warfare

By Ariel Conn | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Dealing realistically with the artificial intelligence revolution

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies