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artificial intelligence
Books & arts
What are we talking about when we talk about AI?
Campbell Wilson
5 June 2025
Applying the term to everything from dishwashers to medical breakthroughs masks both its benefits and its harms
Books & arts
AI through the looking glass
Kurt Johnson
11 November 2024
Could artificial intelligence make us less human?
National affairs
Let’s not pause AI
Toby Walsh
3 April 2023
It’s the lack of intelligence in AI that we should be most worried about, and that requires a different response
Essays & reportage
No idea what it’s talking about
Julian Vido
16 December 2022
ChatGPT produces plausible answers supremely well. And that’s both its strength and its weakness
Books & arts
Ghosts in the machine
Ellen Broad
5 August 2021
A computer scientist takes on artificial-intelligence boosters. But does he dig deep enough?
Essays & reportage
More Star Trek than Terminator?
Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh
25 November 2019
Can the hopes of tech optimists and the fears of tech pessimists be reconciled?