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Government surveillance is hardly new. What artificial intelligence threatens to change is not government’s desire to watch, but its ability…

The self-driving truck is no longer merely a futuristic concept. Autonomous vehicles are steadily moving from experimental programs toward commercial…

If AI Can’t Count Its Own Words, Should We Trust It With Our Numbers? Anyone who regularly uses artificial intelligence…

The debate over artificial intelligence has become strangely fixated on the machine. Will AI become smarter than humanity? Will it…

For years, Americans have been encouraged to make their homes “smart.” We connected thermostats to the Internet, installed cameras at…

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being entrusted with decisions that affect human beings. Algorithms help determine who gets interviewed for jobs,…

For more than a generation, Americans were given remarkably consistent career advice: Learn technology. Get a computer science degree. Become…

For most of human history, murder has been a concept requiring little philosophical explanation. A living human being exists. Another…

American criminal law has always recognized that the means used to commit an offense can matter almost as much as…

The public debate over artificial intelligence increasingly sounds like the plot of a science-fiction movie. Will AI become conscious? Will…