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Is baby Skynet already here? We need robust laws now to withstand eliminating humans from nuclear decision-making

Exposing the antiscience playbook reveals the antiregulatory motives of its deep-pocketed bankrollers

The CPORT algorithm, commonly used to estimate the risk that a child pornography offender will offend again, hasn’t been validated for use in the U.S.

We face a moment of opportunity—and competition—in bringing digital twin technology to patients

Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves.

Amid rising numbers of cyber threats, safeguarding our satellites is no longer optional but a necessity for global security and reliability

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data

Some of our favorite stories this year are best told visually

Whatever fantasies we may have had about the nonprofit structure of OpenAI have been eviscerated. While it remains a nonprofit, it’s proven entirely beholden to ruthless capitalism

As humans encroach on polar bear habitats, new tools such as drone-mounted radar can prevent us from disrupting the hidden dens where bears give birth

Amid restrictions on optical satellite images, researchers have developed a radar technique to gauge building damage in Gaza

People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI