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Media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) tends to invoke tired references to The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 killing people on a spaceship. Hollywood loves a story about a sentient robot destroying humanity to survive. Google researcher Blake Lemoine last week grabbed headlines for getting suspended after releasing transcripts of a “conversation” with its Lamda AI research experiment. Lemoine believes that Lamda is sentient and aware of itself, and describes the ma...

The language used by AI is the reflection in the mirror.

In a recent essay called “How to Future,” Kevin Kelly, one of the founding editors of...

Blake Lemoine’s analysis should make us consider how little we have planned for a future where advances in robotics will increasingly change how we live.

The fuss about a bot’s ‘consciousness’ obscures far more troubling concerns

Possible U.F.O. sightings, A.I. breakthroughs and the Jan. 6 hearings all help us understand how hard it to grasp what is happening right in front of us.

Whenever I have had the displeasure of interacting with an obtuse online customer service bot or an automated phone service, I have come away with the

Ignore the Silicon Valley messiahs. They only expose how little most of us know about the technology and its ethics.

Should we worry about chatbots becoming ‘sentient’?