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The impact of AI technologies on work and working life, and renewed public and policy debates about automation and the future of work.

As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.

Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.

Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines.

New IBM system shows off argumentation skills.

Kai-Fu Lee - a former Apple, Microsoft and Google executive turned investor - is placing big bets on machine learning. And China is leading the way.

Europe aims to catch up to China and United States in global artificial intelligence “arms race”

Artificial intelligence could speed up metagenomic studies that look for species unknown to science.

What people write reveals hidden biases.

Big technology companies seem to be waging a war on humankind’s long-standing intellectual tradition, according to author Franklin Foer, who shows us how to fight back.

Top researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have called for a boycott of the South Korean university KAIST after it opened a lab with the defense firm Hanwha Systems.

In an interview with WIRED, French President Emmanuel Macron describes his plans to enhance the country's AI efforts—and differentiate them from those in the US.

French president announces ambitious plan to boost artificial intelligence research and lure talent to France.

A new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes. But some scientists warn that far from reducing gang violence, the program could do the opposite by eroding trust in communities, or it could brand innocent people as gang members.

Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.

UK announces plans for the ethical oversight of AI as it is increasingly used to drive cars, diagnose patients and even to help determine prison sentences.

The country’s research could soon dominate the world stage, but pitfalls lie in wait.

The Hanson Robotics headline maker is now pushing for women's rights in a country that granted her more rights than it grants most human females.

Traditional employers like General Electric are using artificial intelligence and other elements of the work-on-demand business model to manage traditional full-time workforces.

Academics, industry and government have joined together, setting the stage for Canada to become a research and development powerhouse in AI.

AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies.

"It’s clear we are a long way from artificial general intelligence." - Erik Brynjolfsson

In this piece, I will explain how the explanation of the emergence of life could also explain the mechanism of Deep Learning.

The Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics can now do backflips. That's one hell of a feat for a bipedal machine.

This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data. 

A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.

A handful of companies are luring away top researchers, but academics say they are killing the geese that lay the golden eggs.

Artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.