GenAI slides so easily off the tongue in English. You almost forget what AI actually is. The stories we’ve published over the years, with the usual free links to JSTOR scholarship about artificial intelligence or AI, will remind you or help you teach others.
AI and Education
Work and school are two realms that will be deeply affected by artificial intelligence. How can we prepare?
A Bot Might Have Written This
May 3, 2023
ChatGPT is here. How can teachers and students proceed to use it with integrity?
Artificial Intelligence and Education: A Reading List
September 8, 2023
A bibliography to help educators prepare students and themselves for a future shaped by AI—with all its opportunities and drawbacks.
The New “Hybrid Work” is “AI + Humans”
July 7, 2023
The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.
Artificial Intelligence: An AI-Generated Reading List
May 13, 2023
ChatGPT generated this annotated bibliography for us. Don't worry, we'll ask (and pay) a human to write one too.
AI and Humanity: What Makes Us Human?
What’s at stake in the battle between humans and AI machines? Does it have to be a competition?
Will Reading Romance Novels Make Artificial Intelligence More Human?
August 10, 2016
Google is feeding its natural language AI thousands of romance novels in an effort to humanize its “conversational tone.” Will this give it "humanness?"
Will AI Restore Our Sense of Wonder?
July 19, 2019
According to philosopher Max Weber, science led to humanity's disenchantment. But reaching AI Singularity might spark our sense of wonder all over again.
We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right?
May 25, 2023
How to be agents who use new AI tools, rather than subjects manipulated by them.
A Robot By Any Other Name
April 19, 2016
What happens when our AI is part of the family? Our tech blogger on how naming and talking to our devices changes our relationship to technology itself.
What if AI Operated with Intellectual Humility?
January 24, 2024
In the race between humans and machines, imagine a future in which everyone and everything wins.
AI and Creativity
Can artificial intelligence be creative, we asked in 2019. Along came DaVinci…
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?
August 28, 2019
Machines can write compelling ad copy and solve complex "real life" problems. Should the creative class be worried?
AI and the Creative Process: Part One
October 24, 2023
How does generative artificial intelligence upend conventional understandings of who is and what makes for a true artist?
AI and the Creative Process: Part Two
October 25, 2023
Though technological innovation has always influenced considerations of art—think of Duchamp’s controversial urinal—the constant throughout is human touch.
AI and the Creative Process: Part Three
October 26, 2023
The multifaceted nature of creativity subverts the assumption it’s a human endeavor exclusively—meaning we might need to radically re-think the definition of “art.”
Games of Artificial Intelligence
March 30, 2016
Chess and artificial intelligence have been matched almost since the beginning of AI research, but now there's a new game in town.
The Dangers of Artificial Intellgience
So many dystopian films feature AI gone dangerously out of control. Are our fears unfounded?
As Militaries Adopt AI, Hype Becomes a Weapon
August 4, 2023
Few things provoke quite the same amount of anxiety as the effect AI could have on warfare.
Who’s Afraid of Killer Robots?
August 27, 2015
Two recent DARPA projects have sparked fears about killer robots, machines that can decide whether to engage a target without human oversight.
Ray Bradbury on War, Recycling, and Artificial Intelligence
January 22, 2020
As the 21st century unravels, Ray Bradbury remains a fundamental figure of the sci-fi genre.
AI Assisted Research and Other Uses of Artificial Intelligence
Botanists Use Machine Learning to Accelerate Research
June 30, 2021
A new artificial intelligence program called ARADEEPOPSIS will help botanists rapidly classify plant phenotypes.
¡AI, Caramba!: Artificial Intelligence and Policymaking
January 30, 2023
As the use of artificial intelligence expands at the global level, many states are closer to implementing national AI policies. But are they close enough?
The Inevitable Triumph of Iteration over Intellect
January 25, 2018
By virtue of pure chance, a monkey can come up with Romeo and Juliet. This suggests that we can circumvent comprehension and skip straight to competence.
An Astro-Ecology Team Brings Stellar Software Down to Earth
April 10, 2018
This new AI will protect endangered species from poachers, says a team of conservationists and astrophysicists.
Can Game Theory Help Save Our Forests?
May 17, 2016
How forests and endangered species might be saved by artificial intelligence and game theory.
Astronomers Use AI to Shed Light on Dark Energy
February 8, 2024
A new measurement offers insights on the density of the mysterious force driving the Universe’s expansion.
