We speak with Timnit Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, about how artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases and inequality. Gebru is the founder and executive director of the ...

IBM and collaborators say their quantum computers outperform all known classical algorithms for three distinct tasks, but ...

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

A couple of months ago, I made the mistake of lingering on an Instagram post that promised teachings on how to “regulate your nervous system.” I don’t know exactly how it found its way to my algorithm ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content, according to a recent post from Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Specifically, Mosseri was showing off new ways that users might access Your ...

Scroll X (née Twitter) for long enough and you’ll see a familiar complaint: Algorithms have ruined the feed. Users lament that posts no longer appear in a simple chronology and bristle at how often ...

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...