AI won’t give you a copy of grandma. It’ll give you a copy of your image of her. Which, actually, is a feature, not a bug.

Deciding You Can Skip This Question Is Tempting, But It’s a Dead End

The underrated allure of exercising one's talent to do cool things

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...

The billionaire and his followers are out to cull federal employees they think are lazy and overpaid. But without people like Bianca Sicich, the Attwater’s prairie chicken could go extinct.

Inevitably, now and then, a robot will smack a human (due to error). And a human will smack a robot (due to human nature)

If your strategy at work is to spare yourself for other purposes, AI can help

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

Anat Perry on how to decide where an AI or robot can help humans with emotional labor -- and where the machines can't.

Magical thinking comes naturally. But it doesn't inspire trust or self-confidence

Data expert and author Wes Chaar on how to reclaim control over all the intimate information we're now giving away to corporations -- before it's too late

Inventor Collectible Trading Cards feature various inventors and are designed to recognize patent holders in an effort to encourage and inspire future generations of inventors and innovators from vari...

Care is good. Toxic care is not good.

Far from hype, demos and high theory, trying to use AI to actually get things done is ... complicated

Why are so many extremists from a single profession?

Hello Robot's Charlie Kemp on making an assistive robot that's simply useful and usefully simple

Thinking about why the boss and other big-picture people like AI better than the rank and file

Hello Robot's Charlie Kemp on making an assistive robot that's simply useful and usefully simple

A really helpful home robot doesn't need to be fancy, and other notes from HRI24

After a century of fantasies, actual human-shaped robots are starting to turn up in warehouses and factories. Why now? What is next?

Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and billions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulato...

Also: A humanoid-robot milestone, new robot-learning techniques and a reminder to beware "enshittification"

A recent study is full of interesting surprises. Here are some I couldn't fit into my NY Times story today.

The A.I. tool helped most with creative tasks. With more analytical work, however, the technology led to more mistakes.