George Hotz: From Self-Driving Cars to Robots That Cook and Clean
The visionary hacker on how he plans to "solve A.I." and why he thinks this will be a "decade of decentralization."
Artificial Intelligence
Humans Defeat A.I. in Debate. For Now.
An IBM team led by A.I. researcher Noam Slonim has devised a system that does not merely answer questions; it debates the questioners.
Amazing New Chinese A.I.-Powered Language Model Wu Dao 2.0 Unveiled
It's ten times more powerful than the current U.S. effort.
USPS Uses Facial Recognition and Other High-Tech Tools To Monitor Social Media
Plus: Three things that aren't as bad as they seem, Tennessee bans certain treatments for transgender minors, and more...
Bad Cop, No Robot
The case for legally constraining what police departments can do with robots.
Serbia's Surveillance Cameras Can Recognize Faces, License Plates
Huawei’s Safe City security system is undergoing a massive expansion across Belgrade.
George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a 'Scam' and Silicon Valley 'Needs To Die'
The hacking wunderkind thinks Big Tech's approach won't work. He built a $999 autonomous driving system that runs on a smartphone.
Will Robots Lead to Widespread Joblessness and Economic Inequality?
Martin Ford and Antony Sammeroff debate the future of robotics and its potential economic impacts at the Soho Forum.
Will Robots Cause Mass Unemployment? A Soho Forum Debate
Martin Ford and Antony Sammeroff debate the impact of robotics on the economy
Should the Government Regulate Deepfakes? We Asked People on Venice Beach
Deepfakes don't pose a novel threat, and they have many exciting applications that would be stymied by legal restrictions.
Minimum Wage Boosts Are Great—For Robots
Making low-skill workers more expensive means getting them replaced by automation.
Donald Trump Wants to Choke Chinese Tech Growth. An Import Ban Could Do the Opposite.
Attempts to control how artificial intelligence develops and is used could backfire.
Meet the Robot Lawyer Fighting Fines, Fees, and Red Tape
DoNotPay is launching a "denial of service attack on the legal system to make it better."
Will World War III Be Fought by Robots?
What happens when autonomous machines have "to choose between various shades of wrong?" A Q&A with defense analyst Paul Scharre.
Artificial Intelligence Will Be More Economically Consequential than Steam Power Was
AI could boost economic growth by 1.2 percent annually between now and 2030.
Police Body Cameras May Get Facial Recogntion
One of America's largest body camera suppliers has expressed interest in the technology.
Countering the Threat of the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
Are smart Roombas booby-trapped with bombs in our future?
Put 'Humanity First,' Demands 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang
No robots need apply.
Is Silicon Valley Building the Infrastructure for a Police State?
New AI tools could empower the government to violate our civil liberties.
Trump Boots Out Immigrant Kids [Podcast]
Reason editors discuss DACA, Artificial Intelligence, federalism, and driverless cars.
Save the Robots from the Humans!
We could be on the verge of an all-out war on artificial intelligence technologies.
Elon Musk Is Wrong about Artificial Intelligence and the Precautionary Principle
The Tesla and SpaceX founder "summons the demon" of regulation.
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.
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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
