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AI is plundering the imagination and replacing it with a slot machine

By Annie Dorsen | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Is AI art’s true foe?

By Martin O’Leary | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Engineers Meeting in Robotic Research Laboratory. By Gorodenkoff. Standard license. stock.adobe.com

Do scientists need an AI Hippocratic oath? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

Cow. Credit: Roboiitgrs. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Who hacked the slaughterhouse? When robots and AI take over farms

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

“Bosom peril” is not “breast cancer”: How weird computer-generated phrases help researchers find scientific publishing fraud

By Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, Alexander Magazinov | Disruptive Technologies

DeepMind’s David Silver speaks to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters. Photo provided by David Silver and used with permission.

DeepMind’s David Silver on games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A U-2 spy plane.

Regulating military AI will be difficult. Here’s a way forward

By Vincent Boulanin | Artificial Intelligence

An autonomous ship.

How Joe Biden can use confidence-building measures for military uses of AI

By Michael C. Horowitz, Lauren Kahn | Disruptive Technologies

In the debate over autonomous weapons, it’s time to unlock the “black box” of AI

By Arthur Holland Michel | Artificial Intelligence, Opinion

When AI is in control, who’s to blame for military accidents?

By Julia Ciocca, Lauren Kahn | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence

An AI system described the Wu-Tang Clan as a baseball players.

How to make AI less racist

By Walter Scheirer | Artificial Intelligence