Much like The Simpsons, Hideo Kojima is a little too good at predicting the future. The Metal Gear series predicted everything from AI deepfakes and proxy wars to video calls. The original Death ...

Tension: We crave personalization while remaining unaware that algorithms are quietly shaping our future preferences and identity. Noise: The marketing industry celebrates AI personalization as ...

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

The knowledge workers of both countries feel the surveillance presence of the technology. A.I. is now used in decisions to ...

Over the past week we’ve witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP – or, more verbosely, the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...