Lessons from Taiwan: How digital tools can help governments regain the people’s trust This is a story about how digital tools helped government officials regain the trust of the electorate — but it’s… Read More
How do you tame AI? Scientist sees a need for regulating bots like drugs or airplanes Have the risks of artificial intelligence risen to the point where more regulation is needed? Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus argues… Read More
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Writers respond to Marc Andreessen’s AI optimism with their own manifesto: ‘It’s mostly nonsense’ How will “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s paean to economic growth and artificial intelligence, play to a wider… Read More
Science-fiction master Ted Chiang explores the rights and wrongs of AI What rights does a robot have? If our machines become intelligent in the science-fiction way, that’s likely to become a… Read More