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Artificial Intelligence

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

How well can an AI mimic human ethics?

By Kelsey Piper

Maybe losing the AI race to China isn’t such a bad idea

By Adam Clark Estes

Elon Musk’s problematic plan for “full self-driving” Teslas

By Rebecca Heilweil

AI’s Islamophobia problem

By Sigal Samuel

The new digital driver’s licenses from Apple sound slightly creepy

By Rebecca Heilweil

From Macy’s to Albertsons, facial recognition is already everywhere

By Rebecca Heilweil

Worldcoin wants to give you cryptocurrency — in exchange for scanning your eyeballs

By Rebecca Heilweil

Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure.

By Shirin Ghaffary

A disturbing, viral Twitter thread reveals how AI-powered insurance can go wrong

By Sara Morrison

Google’s plan to make search more sentient

By Rebecca Heilweil

Watch NASA’s new autonomous helicopter take flight on Mars

By Rebecca Heilweil

Teachers are sacrificing student privacy to stop cheating

By Sara Morrison and Rebecca Heilweil

The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher’s departure 

By Shirin Ghaffary

AI has cracked a problem that stumped biologists for 50 years. It’s a huge deal.

By Sigal Samuel

Amazon’s surveillance cameras fly now — which is unsettling

By Rebecca Heilweil

Elon Musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain

By Rebecca Heilweil

The UK used a formula to predict students’ scores for canceled exams. Guess who did well.

By Kelsey Piper

The dystopian tech that companies are selling to help schools reopen sooner

By Rebecca Heilweil

GPT-3, explained: This new language AI is uncanny, funny — and a big deal

By Kelsey Piper

What women in Congress want from Facebook

By Rebecca Heilweil

Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders have a plan to protect you from facial recognition

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why it matters that TikTok wants to reveal its algorithms

By Rebecca Heilweil

Facebook is taking a hard look at racial bias in its algorithms

By Rebecca Heilweil

Networks of self-driving trucks are becoming a reality in the US

By Rebecca Heilweil

How deepfakes could actually do some good

By Rebecca Heilweil

Big tech companies back away from selling facial recognition to police. That’s progress.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why it matters that IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business

By Rebecca Heilweil

Beware of these futuristic background checks

By Rebecca Heilweil

Don’t expect AI to solve the coronavirus crisis on its own

By Rebecca Heilweil

Facebook is flagging some coronavirus news posts as spam

By Rebecca Heilweil

The pope’s plan to fight back against evil AI

By Rebecca Heilweil

Coronavirus is the first big test for futuristic tech that can prevent pandemics

By Rebecca Heilweil

Tesla needs to fix its deadly Autopilot problem

By Rebecca Heilweil

There’s something strange about TikTok recommendations

By Rebecca Heilweil

How tech companies are trying to make augmented and virtual reality a thing, again

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

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The “smarter” wall: How drones, sensors, and AI are patrolling the border

Here’s what a so-called "smart wall" of technology at the US-Mexico border looks like.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Why we don’t know as much as we should about police surveillance technology

By Rebecca Heilweil

Would you take a drug discovered by artificial intelligence?

By Rebecca Heilweil

How AI is battling the coronavirus outbreak

By Rebecca Heilweil