Dystopias

Earth and its inhabitants haven't exactly kept a low profile since the introduction of electric lamps in the 19th century. Once wired,...

I'm not anti-technology: being anti-technology in an age as immersed in an ocean of rapidly evolving tech as this one would be about...

Color me hypervigilant, but I'm just a little skeptical when it comes to the benevolence touted by tech companies when it comes to...

Affectiva, an American start-up company that successfully built an AI learning system that can recognize human emotions by analyzing...

One of sharpest truths you learn as you realize that arguing with people – either on the Internet or elsewhere – is a waste of...

The final paragraph of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Road, which imagines the world after a nuclear holocaust, is...

VAAK, a Japanese startup, has developed artificial intelligence software that can detect suspicious human body language in potential...

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research group co-founded by Elon Musk and whose website touts a vision of "discovering and...

In the 1983 film War Games, a teenage hacker accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a military supercomputer programmed to...

As robots and artificial intelligence begin to take on more roles in our daily lives, there are bound to be hiccups, some bigger than...

Traveling around the holidays is always a nightmare, but for those going in and out of London's Gatwick Airport yesterday it was pure...

We previously reported on Google's DeepMind AI being able to generate new, photorealistic images of scenes that never existed, as well...

If you thought the face of AI oppression was going to take the form of robots going down the street killing people (as Elon Musk...

Over the years, we've covered some stuff that seemed straight out of a cyberpunk novel, from technology that may allow you to control...

It was fun while it lasted, guys. We all knew that the day would come when humanity would spark the flame that would destroy the...

While everyone is playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and Black Ops 4, developers and engineers at the MIT Media Lab are going for a game...

Machine learning and neural nets have been adapted to everything from writing fortune cookie messages to developing new drugs, but...

If there's one thing society can agree on, it's that going through airport security and waiting to board a plane sucks. From arriving...

Each year the Global Footprint Network (GFN), an international environment think tank, assesses how much of the Earth's resources...

Companies are manufacturing computer-generated influencers-slash-models to sell you on their products.