“How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions.”
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Waymo Money, Waymo Problems
“Robots take to the roads—and clog the sidewalks.”
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We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI
“Surekha Davies on machines, monsters and why humanity is still worth fighting for.”
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Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language
Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
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A Dog’s Inner Life: What a Robot Pet Taught Me About Consciousness
“The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and instinct’. This may seem over the top, but is it? In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions have become engineering problems.”
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‘Machines Set Loose to Slaughter’: the Dangerous Rise of Military AI
“… it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the idea of ethical robotic killing machines is unrealistic, and all too likely to support dangerous fantasies of pushbutton wars and guiltless slaughters.”
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Extreme Heat Is Here, and It’s Deadly
“For many, the present is already feeling pretty dystopian.” Arizona and regions across the U.S. are seeing record-high temperatures — and the heat will only intensify. At High Country News, Jessica Kutz reports that climate fiction, Indigenous architecture, and a robot named MaRTy are a few key things that can prepare us for a hotter […]
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Is Estonia Leading the Way to the Future Digital World?
Estonia’s ultimate goal in digitizing its society has less to do with automation than it does with embracing the transient nature of labor in the European marketplace.
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The Dream of a Perfect Android
Hiroshi Ishiguro has spent his career creating robots. But does he know enough about humans to make them lifelike?