Artificial Intelligence

Assisted Suicide, on Demand

With Exit International’s new Sarco suicide pod and experimental AI, the future of assisted suicide is ripe for disruption.

By Stav Dimitropoulos

Building a Better Nose

Dogs, ants, and other organisms that sniff out cancer could help train an AI to do the same.

By Robin Donovan

Designer-Drug Detection Levels Up with AI

A growing wave of novel substances for performance enhancement or just getting high hits the streets weekly.

By Matthew Hutson

What Do Neurons and Snowflakes Have to Teach Us About AI?

The fact that no two are alike could be the key to designing AIs that can adapt to change.

By Jonathan Grinstein

5 Ways to Save Humanity from a Malicious AI

Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin plans to outsmart a future artificial intelligence and save humanity.

By Stav Dimitropoulos

Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Manipulate You

While AI may not end the world the way sci-fi writers imagine, it may very well pull your strings in the near future.

By Matthew Hutson

Alarm Fatigue in the ICU—A Huge Problem Made Worse by COVID-19

Can AI revolutionize the growing, billion-dollar global market for clinical alarm management in hospitals—and help save lives?

By Emma Yasinski

AI Breathes New Life into Old Drugs

Deep learning uncovers the potential of existing medications to target different diseases.

By Matthew Hutson

My Baby Won’t Sleep. Help Me AI, You’re My Only Hope.

Sleepless babies can drive modern parents to desperation. Can bots, algorithms, and apps actually help?

By Elizabeth Preston

The Limits of Computers That Read Our Minds

A professor in China builds a brain-machine interface that keeps humans fully in charge.

By Yiting Sun