C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

“If you’ve created a conscious machine, it’s not the history of man. That’s the history of gods.” That line from 2014 movie Ex Machina keeps surfacing as I watch my students navigate a world ...

Artificial intelligence and extreme individualism are reshaping humanity’s understanding of meaning, morality, and faith ...

As Karl Marx noted in many of his works, every technological leap within the capitalist system does not lead to human liberation but to the reproduction of class domination by more advanced means.

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...