The venerable magazine briefly took A.I.-generated content to a hilarious new extreme.

The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.

Artificial intelligence once promised to make us healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or total annihilation.

One of Congress’s leading authorities on A.I. says the federal government needs to be more involved in building guardrails.

PLUS: Congress tackles A.I., and GOP senators stay neutral.

Here is an object lesson in how not to use generative A.I.

The high court’s ruling on the nature of “transformative” works of art could have major ramifications for artists working today—as well as the A.I. enthusiasts looking toward tomorrow.

PLUS: Lawmakers eye A.I., and a quick and dirty election round-up.

Lawmakers agree that the rapid evolution of this technology needs to be addressed—but they’re still getting up to speed on the details.

Is the hype (and doomsaying) around generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT obscuring what the technology actually does—and its genuine limitations and dangers?

The president has the power to step in now before A.I. becomes a threat to national security.

Cornell researchers used artificial intelligence to write advocacy emails to state legislators. The responses don’t bode well for democracy in the age of A.I.

Washington’s legal eagles have held that these technical entities are incapable of creating art. At least one chatbot we spoke with agrees.

Programs such as ChatGPT have been greeted with an unholy amount of hyperbole, but they just can’t live up to the hype.

Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?

The surveillance-capitalist giant fired some of its most popular researchers—and revealed its true colors in the process.

A.I. research scientist Timnit Gebru raised red flags about Google’s most exciting new tech. She says she was forced out for it.

Free-market conservatives in the U.S. seem newly fascinated by Chinese state-directed economic policy.

Artificial intelligence is becoming a greater part of our daily lives, but the technologies can contain dangerous biases and assumptions—and we're only beginning to understand the consequences.

The search for an artificial intelligence smart enough to love.