Harvard wants to school Congress about AI

A tech boot camp will teach US politicians and policymakers about the potential, and the risks, of artificial intelligence. Read more »

Is this AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out

The definition of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and the term often gets mangled, so we are here to help. Read more »

How emotions underlie even the coldest human calculations

Expert chess players run the gamut of feelings when solving chess problems, according to a study with significant implications for machine intelligence. Read more »

AI is not “magic dust” for your company, says Google’s Cloud AI boss

Andrew Moore says getting the technology to work in businesses is a huge challenge. Read more »

A robot scientist will dream up new materials to advance computing and fight pollution

Kebotix is using AI and robotics to brainstorm—and then test—novel compounds. Read more »

The quirky ways AI researchers gather data to feed their algorithms

Here are four of the most creative data collection methods used by experts at the leading annual conference on natural-language processing. Read more »

Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place

Two startups are using algorithms to track when images are edited from the moment they’re taken. Read more »

An AI physicist can derive the natural laws of imagined universes

Teaching an AI system the tricks physicists use to understand the real world produces an extraordinarily powerful machine. Read more »

A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”

Millions of people in 233 countries weighed in on whose lives self-driving cars should prioritize, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures. Read more »

Amazon is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown

Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security. Read more »