Faraway fantasies of AI annihilation distract from the more immediate harms the industry is doing today

By Ryan Calo

Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

By Robert Mahari, Jessica Fjeld, and Ziv Epstein

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient, but people seem to want to think it is

By Nir Eisikovits

Right-wing figures are reusing their bogus complaints about the media with artificial intelligence

By Jamison Foser

I used to think facial recognition in policing was no big deal — until I was wrongfully arrested because of it

By Robert Williams

Facial recognition software isn’t reliable and often enables racism

Using facial recognition AI for policing is phrenology with computers

By Sally Davies

Criminologists and sociologists long ago rejected the idea that criminality could be determined by head shape

New artificial intelligence software aids Covid-19 treatment, but company that made it won’t open code for review

By Vishal Khetpal and Nishant Shah

Artificial intelligence isn’t smart enough to understand the unexpected

By Mayank Kejriwal

Most of today’s AI programs come to a grinding halt when they encounter unexpected conditions, like a change in the rules of a game