All self-respecting articles about artificial intelligence (AI) must start with AlphaGo, the AI that just trounced the human champion at the Chinese game of Go. No one thought this would happen, even though other AIs... Read More

“Ahead of the Curve” is a new column exploring how humanists should begin thinking about the enormous changes bound to disrupt our twenty-first century world. September was a rough month—natural disasters … nuclear war threats... Read More