Automation is supposed to make employees more productive. But does that fundamentally misunderstand how people work?

With AI entering the domain of workplaces and operating systems at record speeds, scientists are asking whether it's even possible to power it all.

It's all driven by who gets what

Tech companies remain secretive over the amount of energy and water it takes to train their complex programs and models

Discussions about AI often focus on the futuristic threat posed by superhuman intelligence. But AI is already woven into the fabric of our daily lives

Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.

In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

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The glitches we often see in conversational interfaces like Alexa and Siri reveal to us the unique human ability we have to deploy empathy in conversations and social life. But in order for artificially intelligent machines to learn, more and more we must express ourselves in a reduced language and must simplify the complex range of human expression into something AI can understand. As we learn to live within the narrow confines of the computer, we will increasingly begin to lose the creative expressive potential of our bodies and language, writes David Berry.

This open access book takes a human-focused approach to autonomous technology and the influence on human lives and ways of working

Holly Lewis proposes a framework for understanding AI by contextualizing the technology, examining our intuitions, and analyzing the systemic logic of embedded material social relations.

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He spent half a century developing artificial intelligence. Now, he worries that his life’s work could spell the end of humanity. Inside his mission to warn the world

The godfather of virtual reality has worked beside the web’s visionaries and power-brokers – but likes nothing more than to show the flaws of technology. He discusses how we can make AI work for us, how the internet takes away choice – and why he would ban TikTok

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It Isn’t Just Bias and Threats to Creative Livelihoods. Generative AI Is Built on Nihilism. Its Real Product Is Despair.

The Historical Figures app's factual errors are egregious, but some experts are more worried about its implications on knowledge authority.

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We really enjoyed this recent interview with top A.I. researcher Yejin Choi from The New York Times. It goes a long way to temper a lot of the hype and fear surrounding A.I. while also shining ligh…

At every turn, academic integrity has been both supported by and tested by technology; in this post we address AI-writing.

The up-and-coming Wonder of the World in software and  information circles , and particularly in those circles who talk about them, is AI. Give a magic machine a lot of stuff, ask it a question, an…

Unsurprisingly, the artistic and ethical shortcomings of AI image generators are tied to their dependence on capital and capitalism.

An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.

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A new study shows bias is deeply ingrained in algorithmic models, generating sexualized images of women while creating professional images of men.