Spring 2018

Living with Artificial Intelligence

Humans created AI. Now humanity must learn how to live with it. With the potential to upend sectors from law enforcement to labor and to reshape relations both international and interpersonal, this is not just technology. It’s the start of the algorithmic age.

in this issue:

This Is Your Office on AI

– Jeffrey Brown

The future has arrived and you're starting a new job... But where are the brain-computer interfaces? Only over subsequent weeks do you realize that work itself has changed and what it means to be a worker has undergone a similar retrofit.

While We Remain

– John C. Havens

The greatest threat that humanity faces from artificial intelligence is not killer robots, but rather, our lack of willingness to analyze, name, and live to the values we want society to have today.

Interactive: Art(ificial intelligence)

– Madhvi Ramani

Avant-garde artists are engaging artificial intelligence to explore the nature, implications, and potential of the technology - and to raise provocative questions about how we see ourselves and the world around us.

Russia Tries to Get Smart about Artificial Intelligence

– Jill Dougherty and Molly Jay

From the reign of Peter the Great to the Soviet era, and now under President Putin, Russia has been intent to, as Lenin termed it, “catch up and surpass” the West. That ambition applies to AI, too.