Design activity -- constructing an artifact description satisfying given goals and constraints -- distinguishes humanity from other animals and traditional machines, and endowing machines with design abilities at the human level or beyond has been a long-... (more…)

Bellingcat is the world’s biggest citizen-run intelligence agency, investigating everything from the 2014 shoot-down of MH17 to the various plots to kill Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The person behind it all? Eliot Higgins. (more…)

US President Joe Biden met with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies including Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google and made clear they must ensure their products are safe before they are deployed. (more…)

No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (more…)

At Facebook's FAIR labs, researchers are working hard to put AI to use. But, faced with competition from Google's DeepMind, the social media giant has to pick its battles wisely... (more…)