Watch a subscriber-only conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology. Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” ...

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype, with companies making breathless claims about hacking, mathematical breakthroughs, and the prospect of self-improving superintelligence.

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

Emily M. Bender is professor of linguistics at the University of Washington and coauthor of The AI Con. Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

DAIR (the Distributed AI Research Institute) and author of the forthcoming book Deep Unlearning: The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist, which is available for preorders now and set to publish on ...