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After the Facebook scandal: The grand plan to hold AI to account

From next month, EU citizens will have sweeping rights to know what computers are thinking about them – but can that work, and if so how?

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Technology

Killer AI boycott row shows there is research we can’t accept

Comment

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Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations

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Life

Syncing our brain activity may help us interact with each other

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Technology

13 absurdly comic AI April Fool's pranks you'll want to try

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Technology

AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan

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Technology

Mind-reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you're looking at

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We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm

Space

We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm

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Technology

App guesses your emotions to target you with adverts

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Technology

DeepMind’s virtual psychology lab seeks flaws in digital minds

Google’s AI company has released a simulated 3D environment in which machines can pit themselves against cognitive tests designed for humans

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Technology

Your next job interview could be playing a weird smartphone game

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Technology

AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

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Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

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Humans

We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world

Culture