Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
AI hype has researchers in fields from medicine to political science rushing to use techniques that they don’t always understand—causing a wave of spurious results.
The Summer’s Best Read Is About AI, Surveillance, and Tiny Aliens
Ever wish George Saunders tried his hand at crime fiction? Try David Musgrave’s imaginative debut novel, Lambda.
Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem
The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.
Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.
The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can’t do to people, like whether it’s OK to deploy lie detectors at borders.
This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language
Machines that understand what their human teammates are doing could boost productivity without taking jobs.
The Power and Pitfalls of AI for US Intelligence
Artificial intelligence use is booming, but it’s not the secret weapon you might imagine.
Blake Lemoine Says Google’s LaMDA AI Faces ‘Bigotry’
In an interview with WIRED, the engineer and priest elaborated on his belief that the program is a person—and not Google’s property.
‘Is This AI Sapient?’ Is the Wrong Question to Ask About LaMDA
The bigger problem is what happens when we act as if AIs are conscious, and how that could be used against us.