Experts are worried we're ceding too many decisions to recommendation algorithms and are on a slippery slope to exploitation and learned helplessness. In reality, we'd be lost and very frustrated without them.

The American military may be the best in the world, but too often, it's fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century ideas. Its foreign counterparts have an opportunity to master the wars of the future.

Kissinger's concerns about machines displacing human curiosity and turning our brains into useless, gray jelly unsuccessfully mine the same territory as many other technophobes with roughly the same results.

IBM was going to use Watson to find new treatments for cancer and help oncologists provide better care for their patients. They ended up doing neither and revealing the machine's Achilles heel.

Did a real robot brothel quietly open in Barcelona? Well, that depends on your definition of robot...

Trump administration officials tells workers already or currently being replaced by robots it won't happen for another 50 to 100 years.

If you're going to fight trolls, racists, and bigots with AI, you're going to need a much more comprehensive approach than a few neural networks...

Programmer Maciej Ceglowski refuses to fall for the Gospel of the Nerd Rapture and offers a novel idea for giving people a more realistic idea of what AI really is.

We are not running out of jobs humans can do as computers take on more and more responsibilities. We're just choosing not to create new jobs and educate workers.

George Dvorsky decided to try some myth-busting about the future of AI and the nature of the technology. The end result needs a lot of myth-busting of its own...

Let's not surgarcoat this. We will build autonomous killer robots because we have every incentive to. So let's make sure we get them right.

An AI far smarter than any human may want to have no contact with us. Unfortunately, it won't have a choice in the matter.

When thinking about AI, we often focus on human analogs. But what if we consider a non-human intelligence for a change?

Neither Ray Kurzweil or Jaron Lanier seem to lack imagination as to what jobs computers could do. So why are they so uncreative when it comes to coming up with ideas for humans working alongside AI?

Technophobes and worried Singularitarians concerned about a violent AI need to stop worrying about the machines and start worrying about who's programming them.