Artificial Intelligence

Put Humans at the Center of AI

At Stanford and Google, Fei-Fei Li is leading the development of artificial intelligence—and working to diversify the field.

• by Will Knight

Intelligent Machines

We Need Computers with Empathy

An emerging trend in artificial intelligence is to get computers to detect how we’re feeling and respond accordingly. They might even help us develop more compassion for one another.

• by Rana el Kaliouby

Intelligent Machines

How We Feel About Robots That Feel

As robots become smart enough to detect our feelings and respond appropriately, they could have something like emotions of their own. But that won’t necessarily make them more like humans.

• by Louisa Hall

Intelligent Machines

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.

• by Rodney Brooks

Intelligent Machines

Fearsome Machines: A Prehistory

A time line of what happened when in the history of artificial intelligence.

Intelligent Machines

The Dangers of Tech-Bro AI

Tabitha Goldstaub, a cofounder of CognitionX, which helps companies deploy AI, says that diversifying the field is necessary to make sure products actually work well.

Intelligent Machines

How to Root Out Hidden Biases in AI

Algorithms are making life-changing decisions like denying parole or granting loans. Cynthia Dwork, a computer scientist at Harvard, is developing ways of making sure the machines are operating fairly.

Artificial Intelligence

Fiction That Gets AI Right

What to watch and read before the robots take over.

• by Brian Bergstein

Intelligent Machines

Don’t Let Regulators Ruin AI

Tech policy scholar Andrea O’Sullivan says the U.S. needs to be careful not to hamstring innovation.

• by Andrea O’Sullivan