I As far back as his memory went, Arlan Mynx had longed to rule the world. In grade school, this longing manifested in a dramatic...

Among the many bequests of Isaac Asimov to the human conversation was his take on the robot – its nature and role. Emerging in science...

Earthrise and evening meal, and three years of multiple daily viewings had not made it any less breathtaking. He lingered a moment, then...

Sex robots are already here, and they will rapidly grow more Stepford-like. In the film, they are designed to be indistinguishable from...

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! I’ve spent decades now immersed in the Chinese Room. I’ve argued it endlessly with...

Part of the fun of Star Trek, for me, is how it teases the futurist in me. When I was a kid, I tried to figure out how the Transporter...

The growing hubbub over ChatGPT, a truly landmark AI that is swiftly upgrading public perception of what AI is and what its advent means,...

I The horizon was pink and gray and laced with strands of bright silver lightning. The near-full moon had begun glaring down through a...

Kai-Fu Lee believes that humankind has risen to a whole new level of war-waging. In his new book 2041: Ten Visions of Our Future, Lee...

I recently finished a book, AI in Sci-Fi: Fictional Artificial Minds and the Real World Awaiting Them, in which I survey the many AIs and...

“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass unemployment in the market with the same sense of...

What will become of public education in a world where human beings no longer work for a living? The educational system we have in place...

In the world of Internet technology, big changes are taking place – many of them right under our noses. Everyday devices all around us,...

Westworld presents us with an unprecedented scenario for the evolution of artificial life: a crucible for its development that functions...

This is like That, Hofstadter demonstrated, is the core of we call intelligence – the acquisition and application of knowledge....

As South America burns, as recession looms over the US, as the Senate Majority Leader continues to ensure that no legislation happens in...