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Artificial Intelligence
Interviews with scholars of Artificial Intelligence about their new books.
April 20, 2026
On the Future of Species
Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are alive, clothing has opinions and all human knowledge fits into a s…
August 20, 2025
AI Valley
A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and develo…
February 4, 2025
The Silicon Shrink
AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can't afford or can't access tr…
January 12, 2025
Non-Artificial Intelligence
Listen to this interview of Sterre van Breukelen, engineer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; and Ann Barcomb, Assistant Professor, Uni…
November 21, 2024
The Walls Have Eyes
In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training “robot dogs” to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four-…
September 26, 2024
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Why do we assume that computers always get it right? Today’s book is: Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT Press, 20…
June 10, 2024
From Deep Learning to Rational Machines
Artificial intelligence started with programmed computers, where programmers would manually program human expert knowledge into the systems. In sharp …
March 24, 2024
Cold War 2.0
A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new C…
February 24, 2024
Four Battlegrounds
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial re…
August 22, 2023
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing
Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts discusses the how advancements in artificial intelligence are shaping academic publishing. Avi offers va…
January 24, 2023
Power and Prediction
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. B…
January 13, 2023
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Data journalist Meredith Broussard talks about her book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, with Peoples & Things host …
January 5, 2023
Futures of Artificial Intelligence
Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial re…
November 14, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Reincarnation, and Resurrection
Ernest M. Valea's Artificial Intelligence, Reincarnation, and Resurrection: An Inquiry Into the Ultimate Fulfillment of Human Nature (Resource Publica…
July 27, 2022
Automation and Autonomy
Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) argues that Marxist theory is…
May 18, 2022
Artificial Communication
Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a devi…
May 4, 2022
A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracke…
March 21, 2022
The Atlas of AI
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our s…
March 4, 2021
The Feeling Economy
Today I talked to Ming-Hui Huang about her book (coauthored with Roland T. Rust), The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era…
March 12, 2020
Robot Rules
In his new book Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Jacob Turner explains why AI is unique, what legal and eth…