AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.

Patients and providers are processing their uncertainty in real time.

AI companies’ insistence that their technology is making breakthroughs, not just aiding scientists, is making real progress harder to recognize.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

Our research shows that data centers represent a lightning rod issue for broad, diverse communities that desire both prosperity and power.

The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...

Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.

The term lends an air of scientific rigor to what are really billion-dollar corporations.

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Anonymous handwritten notes about people's relationship with AI — an anthropological art project documenting its growing presence in the most intimate details of our lives.

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

Justin Hendrix and Alice Marwick in conversation with Gil Durán, author of the new book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

Big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft use devices, training and conferences for teachers and students to embed in schools. The New York Times' Natasha Singer discusses the impact in Coding Kids.

Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves

Join us as professor, researcher, and Data & Society founder danah boyd discusses her new book and its implications with historian and author Dan Bouk, in a conversation moderated by Data & Society Ex...

Every so often, my mom tells me about what it was like growing up in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the early ’70s. She recalls how the panoramic view of the city that greets everyone who drives t...

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

A new study says the data center industry’s expansion echoes patterns of environmental and health harms that have long plagued the state.

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

Our research shows that data centers represent a lightning rod issue for broad, diverse communities that desire both prosperity and power.

An open letter calling on all frontier AI companies to embed independent evaluators — signed by 100+ researchers, practitioners, and organization leaders.

People increasingly use general-purpose chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for mental health and emotional support. We report a multi-stage longitudinal qualitative study of 18 U.S. adults, ...

Recent incidents concerning rogue AI agents committing cyberattacks have catalyzed a unique moment of political attention on AI safety and regulation. In a letter to Congress, we caution against narro...