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Today in terrible ideas: an AI system that claims to be able to accurately predict your political affiliation…

In a perfect world, your robovac would be able to recognize pet poop and automatically clean it up without you ever…

Researchers at UCLA have created a model to distinguish conspiracy theories from actual conspiracies which will…

Though we’re still a long ways out from being invited back into Westworld in the series’ mysterious fourth season,…

Nearly three weeks after the abrupt exit of Black artificial intelligence ethicist Timnit Gebru, more details are…

After more than 2,200 employees signed a letter on Monday condemning Google’s reported decision to terminate a…

Author Ernest Cline has returned to the OASIS with Ready Player Two, the long-awaited sequel to his science fiction…

Police drones are already a dystopian horror story straight out of the pages of 1984, but now they’re even beginning…

More than 1,500 Google employees and some 2,000 academic, industry, and civil society supporters have signed a…

I know nothing about poetry, but I’m pretty sure Verse by Verse—Google’s new AI-powered poetry generator—is phoning…

Well, this is horrifying.

I’ll admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of boba tea even before the pandemic brought my social life to a grinding…

There’s a lot of folks worried about the ethics and future of AI and robotics. Apparently, you can count Pope…

As the world starts to slowly cede control of everything to artificial intelligence, there’s bound to be some…

It feels like whenever I cough these days it triggers a mini-panic attack that I promptly try to quash with a steady…

The second U.S. presidential debate of 2020 was more sedate than the first, with its whining, braying, and general…

On Instagram, I am besieged with ads for personalized skincare and hair care. Curology, Skintelli, Proven, Skinsei,…

Ending hunger is one of the top priorities of the United Nations this decade. Yet the world appears to be backsliding

What’s worse: a future in which the robots turn against us or a future filled with robot stand-up comedians? Regular…

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, said Thursday that it’s offering its fully driverless robo-taxis to all cus…