Elon Musk Is Wrong about Artificial Intelligence and the Precautionary Principle
The Tesla and SpaceX founder "summons the demon" of regulation.
Artificial Intelligence
There's No Harm in Fantasizing About a Better Future
In Radicals Chasing Utopia, transhumanist enthusiasm gets a bad rap.
Zuckerberg and Musk Aim to Make Telepathy a Reality
Fourth Amendment privacy is more important once our thoughts are stored outside our wetware.
3 Technologies Will Utterly Transform Your World in the Next Decade
Blockchain, CRISPR, and Machine Learning
Welcoming Our New Algorithmic Overlords?
Algocracy and its effect on government decision making
At What Point Does Robo-Bureaucracy Become Robo-Tyranny?: New at Reason
Robot overlords coming to a government agency near you.
The Internet Turns a Chatbot Into a Nazi
Microsoft released a simulacrum of a teenager into the digital wild. Guess what happened next!
Computers as Oracles: True Answers We Won't Understand
DeepMind's AlphaGo may signal the advent of the age of computational thaumaturgy
Artificial Intelligence Pioneer and Transhumanist Marvin Minsky Dies at Age 88
Until the time that Minsky is either revived or uploaded, may he rest in peace
Biomedical Study Reproducibility Scandalously Bad, Evidence for "Free Will," and Robot Rebellion by 2055
A scitech research and policy round up for January 5, 2016
How Artificial Stupidity Can Kill Us All
The Singularity is closer and dumber than you think.
Ban Killer Robots, Says Open Letter from Robotics and AI Researchers
Lethal autonomous weapons are too dangerous to develop.
Watch Matt Welch on FBN's After the Bell at 4:00 p.m. ET
On Trump, Jon Stewart, Mike Huckabee, Iran, and A.I. deathbots
Ronald Bailey Argues that Warbots Could Be More Moral than Human Soldiers
So let slip the robots of war?
Let Slip the Robots of War
Lethal autonomous weapon systems might be more moral than human soldiers.
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
The pitfalls of artificial intelligence
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
In a thoughtful new book, a philosopher ponders the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
Is Skynet Inevitable?
Artificial intelligence and the possibility of human extinction
Rights Aren't Just for Humans, Anymore
From chimpanzees to artificial intelligence, science is raising important questions about just who, and what, has rights.
The Coming Robotic World
The future world of autonomous agents is likely to be as glorious and messy as we are.
Computers Are Now as Smart as 4-Year-Olds
But you can leave them in the closet for days without getting into trouble
