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Artificial Intelligence

Vox's coverage of artificial intelligence.

The case for slowing down AI

By Sigal Samuel March 20

Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?

By Kelsey Piper March 18

Will using AI make Microsoft Word better? We’re going to find out.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla March 16

The makers of ChatGPT just released a new AI that can build websites, among other things

By Shirin Ghaffary March 15

If you’re not using ChatGPT for your writing, you’re probably making a mistake

By Dylan Matthews March 14

Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze

By Shirin Ghaffary March 6

How the first chatbot predicted the dangers of AI more than 50 years ago

By Oshan Jarow March 5

The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

By Sara Morrison March 4

Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

By Gary Marcus March 3

OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us

By Kelsey Piper March 1

Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?

By Kelsey Piper February 9

Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things

By Sara Morrison February 8

Here comes Bard, Google’s version of ChatGPT

By Shirin Ghaffary February 6

The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits

By Peter Kafka February 2

Microsoft is beating Google at its own game

By Sara Morrison January 26

What Microsoft gets from betting billions on the maker of ChatGPT

By Sara Morrison January 23

What is generative AI, and why is it suddenly everywhere?

By Rebecca Heilweil January 5

Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup

By Jonathan Guyer December 14, 2022

AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem

By Rebecca Heilweil December 7, 2022

AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

By Kelsey Piper November 28, 2022

Elon Musk has Twitter and Tesla problems

By Rebecca Heilweil November 23, 2022

How tech is helping us talk to animals

By Neel Dhanesha October 30, 2022

The Future Perfect 50

How smart will AI get? Ajeya Cotra has an answer.

By Sigal Samuel October 20, 2022

The Future Perfect 50

Joy Buolamwini saw first-hand the harm of AI bias. Now she’s challenging tech to do better.

By Sigal Samuel October 20, 2022

The Future Perfect 50

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis is AI’s grandmaster

By Bryan Walsh October 20, 2022

The Future Perfect 50

Jason Matheny is helping humanity prepare for the existential threats of the future

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg October 20, 2022

AI art looks way too European

By Neel Dhanesha October 19, 2022

The race to stop weaponized robots

By Rebecca Heilweil October 13, 2022

This year’s physics Nobel Prize went to pioneers in quantum tech. Here’s how their work could change the world.

By Bryan Walsh October 4, 2022

How to stop rolling the dice on the destruction of human civilization

By Kelsey Piper September 22, 2022

Why is Meta’s new AI chatbot so bad?

By Kelsey Piper August 21, 2022

We’re one step closer to robots doing all our housework

By Rebecca Heilweil July 27, 2022

The unsinkable potential of autonomous boats

By Rebecca Heilweil July 20, 2022

Why Silicon Valley is fertile ground for obscure religious beliefs

By Rebecca Heilweil June 30, 2022

If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail

By Bryan Walsh June 18, 2022

Does this AI know it’s alive?

By Dylan Matthews June 15, 2022

The problem with schools turning to surveillance after mass shootings

By Rebecca Heilweil June 2, 2022

The text-to-image revolution, explained

By Joss Fong June 1, 2022

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

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more December 30, 2021

How well can an AI mimic human ethics?

By Kelsey Piper October 27, 2021