17 February 2023
Moves by Google, Microsoft and Baidu to bring AI chatbots into their search engines may bring big advantages, but they could also damage many industries and change the very way we interact with the web
15 November 2022
Artificial intelligences that turn text into video are making rapid progress, but are we ready for a world in which the authenticity of every video is in question?
30 October 2019
Firms are racing to create a real-time database of every object on Earth larger than a car. It would help investors and conservationists, but could it be abused?
26 June 2019
Digital doctors are already in use, but there are big questions about how they work. Are we ready for the rise of AI healthcare?
2 January 2019
Copyright protections were originally designed to incentivise creators and allow them to profit from their work, but what happens when the artist is a machine?
10 October 2018
Advances in artificial intelligence could lead to massive growth in energy use as smart machines push into every corner of our lives
14 March 2018
It is easier than ever to create artificial people and doctored video, and this new tech goes far beyond fake news and porn
