Tag: Artificial intelligence
The future of work will still include plenty of jobs
Wayne Simpson, University of Manitoba
There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work, often accompanied by calls for a basic income to protect...
Why is the Pentagon interested in UFOs?
Iain Boyd, University of Michigan
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors won’t be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage...
Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here’s how workers can...
Beth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Walmart recently said it plans to deploy robots to scan shelves,...
Artificial intelligence may take your job, so political leaders need to...
Alan Montague, RMIT University; Alan Nankervis, RMIT University; John Burgess, RMIT University; Nuttawuth Muenjohn, RMIT University; Ros Cameron, Australian Institute of Business, and Timothy...
Artificial intelligence must know when to ask for human help
Sarah Scheffler, Boston University; Adam D. Smith, Boston University, and Ran Canetti, Boston University
Artificial intelligence systems are powerful tools for businesses and governments to...
How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...
New AI art has artists, collaborators wondering: Who gets the credit?
Aaron Hertzmann, University of Washington
Over the past few years, many artists have started to use what’s called “neural network software” to create works of...
Sex robots are here, but laws aren’t keeping up with the...
Francis X. Shen, University of Minnesota
The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind?
From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots...
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A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines...
Vivien G. Fryd, Vanderbilt University
The #MeToo movement has had a sweeping effect on politics, organized religion, educational institutions, Hollywood, sports and the military.
The cultural...
