In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Some people just want more.

Sometimes the future is now: It’s 2023, and AI is no longer just a subject of new wave science-fiction scenarios. Maybe you’ve played around with asking ChatGTP to write a screenplay for a movie you ...

While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor said. By Michael Levenson It could be a tale from science fiction itself: a ...

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved science fiction. I was obsessed with time travel and space exploration, but robots always had my heart. One Christmas, I was given a huge (well, huge for me at the ...

Dystopian societies and time travel anxieties are covered in this month’s selection of sci-fi offerings. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the ...

For the past decade, a group called the Future of Life Institute has been campaigning for human welfare in public conversations around nuclear weapons, climate change, artificial intelligence and ...