A new competition heralds what is likely to become the future of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, with offensive and defensive AI algorithms doing battle. (more…)

There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy. (more…)

Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future. (more…)

In current times, machine learning and artificial intelligence are buzzwords. But they are more than that—they influence our behavior as well as our conception of the technologies themselves and the world they represent. A lack of understanding of how th... (more…)

Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) research group is back again at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Rather than playing top-ranking Go players in person (with the help of a human to make its moves), now AlphaGo has gone up against players and b...