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Nonfacial Portrait review: art fights to save faces and paint over AI

14 November 2018

Artists play cat and mouse with face-recognition software at a South Korean exhibition in the battle to retain a division between humanity and machines

AI lie detection at border control should proceed with caution

31 October 2018

A new tool that uses AI to help make border control decisions will only be advisory, but history shows people give technology too much weight

An AI lie detector will interrogate travellers at some EU borders

31 October 2018

A digital border guard will be trialled at some borders in Hungary, Latvia and Greece for six months. It includes an AI lie detector, but some doubt it will work

Nira Chamberlain: The maths that can stop an apocalypse

25 October 2018

If you want to stop robots taking over the world, put your faith in one weapon, says Nira Chamberlain: maths

Huge online Trolley Problem survey reveals people's cultural bias

24 October 2018

A survey posed ethical dilemmas to millions of people to help develop self-driving cars, but some worry the results could bake our biases into new technology

Why the quest for ethical AI is doomed to failure

3 October 2018

You wouldn't buy a self-driving car that would kill you to save pedestrians – and that's why we must rethink how we make AI behave, says researcher Iyad Rahwan

How to stop artificial intelligence being so racist and sexist

4 July 2018

AI his frequently be biased, but a new technique may be able put fairness right at the heart of training algorithms

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

11 April 2018

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?

Mind-reading headset lets you Google just with your thoughts

4 April 2018

A mind-reading device can answer questions in your head. It works by picking up signals sent from your brain when you think about saying something

Cancer algorithm uses game theory to double survival time

7 March 2018

Using algorithms to monitor cancer evolution and apply game theory to their treatment has doubled the survival time of men with advanced prostate cancer