Applying for Your Next Job May Be an Automated Nightmare
If you think looking for a job is already daunting, anxiety-riddled, and unpleasant, just wait until the algorithms…
The Mueller Report Reminds Us How Cheap Automation Fueled the Russia Mess
Like everyone else in journalism or the journalism-adjacent world, or anyone who owns a television or…
AI Might Soon Make it Easy to Put Yourself In Your Favorite Video Game
In a rare move by Facebook that doesn’t have the world shaking its head in disbelief, the company’s AI researchers have…
The World's First Sport Invented By an AI Still Looks Less Absurd Than Synchronized Swimming
It’s not uncommon for new technology to spawn a new sport: Drone racing has become hugely popular around the world, and …
Democrats Introduce Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Check Algorithms For Bias
Inside Silicon Valley, the consensus is that artificial intelligence will be the most important technology for the next…
How Automation Turns Us Into Trump Voters
In the olden days, when machines were brought in to replace human workers, the workers revolted—the Luddites famously…
With 1.5 Million UK Workers Slated to Lose Their Jobs to Automation, Calls for a Shorter Work Week Intensify
On Monday, the UK’s Office of Data and Statistics released a report that found 1.5 million of that nation’s workers are…
Stanford's New Institute to Ensure AI Is 'Representative of Humanity' Mostly Staffed by White Guys
Stanford University, the bastion of higher education known for manufacturing Silicon Valley’s future, launched the…
Transit Unions Are Drawing Up a Plan to Confront Autonomous Vehicles
As institutional embrace of automation continues to create a mounting threat to existing jobs, unions are formally…
Aviation Experts Have Predicted Automation Will Lead to Disasters Like the Boeing Max Crashes for 15 Years
The two tragic crashes of Boeing’s best-selling 737 Max planes increasingly look to be caused in part by a…
It's Surprisingly Easy to Make AI Think a Taxi Is a Vacuum Cleaner
Technologists like to put machine learning on a pedestal, exalting its ability to complement and even exceed human…
You Can Help Train AI to Pinpoint NYC's Noisiest Neighborhoods in an Effort to Shut Them Up
New York City is very loud, as you might infer from a place whose principal mythology insists it never sleeps. Or you…
Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
Automation is often presented as an inexorably advancing force, whether it’s ushering in a threat to jobs or a promise…
Lyft's IPO Banks Big on Self-Driving Cars, Shits on Its E-Scooters
Lyft finally filed for an IPO on Friday, a long-expected move for the ride-sharing company that has been racing to beat…
Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too
When pundits, politicians, or advocates have talked about the need to reduce fossil fuel production to combat climate…
The Government Wants to Hear Your Creepy Plan to Predict Behavior With AI and Ankle Monitors
Have a plan to track and predict the behavior of ex-cons using artificial intelligence? The U.S. Department of Justice…
PepsiCo Is ‘Relentlessly Automating’ Its Workforce and It’s Even More Dystopian Than It Sounds
Yesterday morning, news went viral that PepsiCo was spending $2.5 billion on a plan to restructure the company that…
How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell…
Elon Musk-backed AI Company Claims It Made a Text Generator That's Too Dangerous to Release
Researchers at the non-profit AI research group OpenAI just wanted to train their new text generation software to…
World's Largest Retailer Seeks Corporate Welfare in the Age of Automation
Walmart has published a wide-ranging report on how the company predicts automation will unfold across the nation. Based…