We're entering a massive transition period during which certain jobs will disappear forever. We have to start thinking about what will replace them and how.

Don't worry about most white collar office jobs being replaced by machines. At least not yet...

Far from keeping analyses of potential cyber attacks on critical infrastructure nodes, pundits are hyperventilating.

Artificial General Intelligence, or a synthetic mind, might not be possible to build. But if it were, would we even want to create one?

As aspiring AI designer picks a very passionate fight with a way of thinking about AI that's been dead for three decades.

If you're going to be a self-described AI psychologist, you have to understand how AI actually works.

Does an artificial intelligence need a body to truly become what we could consider intelligent?

According to Jonathan Franzen, books are vital to the continuation of civilization, just as long as they're not in digital form because e-books will destroy the sum total of knowledge.

DARPA wants a program that can monitor your actions and predict your every move. Is that even remotely plausible?

We should always think of the children, especially if we're being told to let our ISPs spy on our every move, ostensibly to protect said children.

A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.

Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.

The good news is that we found a way to drastically increase storage density for computers. The bad news is that it's not very practical.

Colleges are trying to figure out who'll actually succeed in a computer science program, and they're starting to find some interesting insights.

While thinking of our bodies as divine or entirely in utilitarian terms is unhealthy, there is a middle ground to consider.