Artificial intelligence
‘I fear people adapt too much’
The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer on how to stay ahead of the algorithms
War machines
Who can take on China in the tech arms race?
Daydream believer
I miss daydreaming. It’s a small problem to have in a pandemic, but it nags at me. Laptop, cooker, home-school,…
We must stop militant liberals from politicizing artificial intelligence
What do you do if decisions that used to be made by humans, with all their biases, start being made…
The Red Hand Files
Two years ago, the songwriter Nick Cave told his fans that he’d speak to them directly — not through an…
A singular mind
Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics – and why AI is nothing to fear
Ignore the science fiction: AI isn’t out to get us
Every ten to 15 years there is a technology breakthrough that really changes what it means to be human. The…
I have seen the future, and it’s a racist, filthy-mouthed teenage robot
‘I’m a nice person,’ said the robot. ‘I just hate everybody.’ Maybe you know the feeling. The robot in question…
Long life
It’s hard to turn on the television nowadays without being shown a robot. It might be looking like a grasshopper…
Would you put your life in the care of Dr Droid?
There’s something wrong with the relationship between patients and their GPs. I’ve spent much of this winter in my local…
The real dilemma of artificial intelligence
Having written (for a Times diary) a few sentences about consciousness in robots, I settled back to study readers’ responses…
Geek god
Believers in omnipotent machine intelligence are reshaping the world to fit their fantasies
Man vs machine
What does it mean these days to beat the bookie? Many of us like to imagine that winning a bet…
Three minds are better than one
A good human chess player with a good computer trounces the best human or computer playing alone
