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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive to announce the Biden administration's approach to artificial intelligence Monday. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies, and "both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias," creating new safety guidelines and industry standards. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A first take on the White House executive order on AI: A great start that perhaps doesn’t go far enough

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila at the Quebec AI Institute, during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law hearing in July. The hearing was titled "Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation." Photo credit: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization

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

Luddites marching into the future

Rage against the machine owners: Brian Merchant on Luddite lessons for 21st-century technology

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Popping the chatbot hype balloon

By Sara Goudarzi | Special Topics

Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Military Applications of AI

Introduction: The Hype, Peril, and Promise of Artificial Intelligence

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Military Applications of AI

A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Will AI make us crazy?

By Dawn Stover | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI

By Moran Cerf, Adam Waytz | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Green dotted world globe, connecting lines and dots on dark color background.

Why AI for biological design should be regulated differently than chatbots

By Matthew E. Walsh | Disruptive Technologies

AI Command of the military forces on the tablet computer

War is messy. AI can’t handle it.

By Ian Reynolds, Ozan Ahmet Cetin | Disruptive Technologies

Screen shot from the film 'Artificial Escalation.'

‘Artificial Escalation’: Imagining the future of nuclear risk

By Anthony Aguirre, Emilia Javorsky, Max Tegmark | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Risk