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Ideas

Optimizing Machines Is Perilous. Consider ‘Creatively Adequate’ AI.

The future of artificial intelligence needs less data and can tolerate ambiguity.
Books

Dystopia Is All Too Plausible in The School for Good Mothers

Jessamine Chan's new novel makes a world full of surveillance android children seem very real. 
Ideas

Are You Sure You Know What a Photograph Is?

Once, I thought I had a definition of photography. Today, surrounded by thermal cameras, lidar, 3D printers, and AI software, I am not so sure.
Crisis Mode

Simulation Tech Can Help Predict the Biggest Threats

In the face of myriad global problems, Single Synthetic Environments will make life and death decisions easier to navigate.
mirror image

Gaming Giant Unity Wants to Digitally Clone the World

The company is leveraging its technology to help clients make “digital twins”—virtual copies of real-life objects, environments, and even people.
Hourly Rate

Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human 

Automation is reaching more companies, imperiling some jobs and changing the nature of others. 
Misdiagnosed

When It Comes to Health Care, AI Has a Long Way to Go

Medical information is more complex and less available than the web data that many algorithms were trained on, so results can be misleading.
Space Atlas

Astrophysicists Release the Biggest Map of the Universe Yet

A powerful astronomy instrument called DESI charts millions of galaxies in the night sky. Can it help scientists finally figure out what dark energy is?
Ideas

The Humanities Can't Save Big Tech From Itself

Hiring sociocultural workers to correct bias overlooks the limitations of these underappreciated fields.
Ideas

When Mind Melds With Machine, Who’s in Control?

Brain-computer interfaces are getting better all the time—and they’re about to land us in a philosophical quagmire.
Un-folding

This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure

New algorithms that decipher complex sequences of amino acids offered an early view of the coronavirus variant. They could point the way to future drugs.
Sow It Goes

John Deere's Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming

The automation, and control of the resulting data, raises questions about the role of human farmers. 
Special Series

The Creepy TikTok Algorithm Doesn’t Know You

The uncanny, addictive AI has turned math into a mystical force—and flattened humanity into a series of codes.
Year in Review

A Year In, Biden’s China Policy Looks a Lot Like Trump’s

The administration has toned down the anti-China rhetoric, but it has maintained and expanded economic sanctions—and plans a “diplomatic boycott” of the Olympics.
Emotional AI

What Happens When an AI Knows How You Feel?

Technology used to only deliver our messages. Now it wants to write them for us by understanding our emotions.
Special Series

If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?

Part of being human is being able to defy the odds. Algorithmic prophecies undermine that.
Special Series

The History of Predicting the Future

Humans have long tried to determine the shape of what’s to come. But even the most advanced technology can’t solve the fundamental issues with predictions.
Year in Review

'Algorithmic Reparation' Calls for Racial Justice in AI

Researchers are encouraging those who work in AI to explicitly consider racism, gender, and other structural inequalities.
Ideas

The Future of Reality Is Multiple Choice

As a new Matrix film arrives in theaters, our senior senior correspondent asks: What is real?
Déjà Vu

The Matrix Resurrections Review: The Wachowskis Were the True Oracles

Directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski warned about the dangers of trusting tech 22 years ago. With the latest sequel, Lana is back with another harbinger.