robots

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Surekha Davies on Machines, Monsters and Why Humanity is Still Worth Fighting For

 
By Surekha Davies  February 6, 2025
On Grief

Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief

By Ariana Reines  October 25, 2024
Robots

Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Over the World Anytime Soon

By Nicole Kobie  September 26, 2024
Robots

A.I. Chatbot, Will You Be My Friend? Seven Stories of Robot-Human Relationships

By Sierra Greer  March 22, 2024
Science fiction

How a 20th-Century Czech Play Influences Our Understanding of Science and Humanity

By Jitka Čejková  January 16, 2024
Robots

Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

By Dan Hope  October 6, 2023
The Hub

An economist predicts that rather than replacing us, ChatGPT will be a “calculator for writing.”

By Jessie Gaynor  January 19, 2023
Robots

So, What Exactly Does Our Robot Future Look Like?

By Dr. Steven Novella with Bob Novella & Jay Novella  September 29, 2022
The History of Literature

On the Life of Czech Sci-Fi Author Karel Čapek, the Man Who Coined the Term “Robot”

By History of Literature  July 12, 2022
The Hub

This Virginia library is getting kids to read . . . through robot companionship.

By Walker Caplan  October 6, 2021
AI

The Imitation of Consciousness: On the Present and Future of Natural Language Processing

By Stephen Marche  June 23, 2021
The Hub

Kazuo Ishiguro thinks artificial intelligence could replace human novelists.

By Walker Caplan  March 4, 2021
The Hub

Can a robot write a play? We’ll find out this month.

By Walker Caplan  February 18, 2021
Robots

Have Robots… Always Been With Us?

By Rebecca Morgan Frank  February 17, 2021
Technology

On the Digital Night Shift: Training a Bot Named Carey

By Lydia Paar  February 1, 2021
New Books Network

Robots: Overlords or Friends?

By New Books Network  November 5, 2020
AI

On the Difficulty of Finding a Distinct Human Voice for
an AI Heroine

By Ros Anderson  August 25, 2020
Longevity

Can You Bring a Tiny Robot Into an Exclusive Austrian Sanatorium?

By Frédéric Beigbeder  April 16, 2020
Book Bot

Meet AROUND B, the book bot butler.

By Aaron Robertson  February 26, 2020
The Hub

A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

By Jonny Diamond  August 28, 2019
Feature

Why the Robot Takeover Isn’t Coming Any Time Soon

By Lena Andersson  March 27, 2019
Technology

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

By Samantha Edmonds  January 3, 2019
Excerpts

Autonomous Everything: How Algorithms Are Taking Over Our World

By Bruce Schneier  October 1, 2018
Criticism

How Can Fiction Predict a Future That’s Already Happening?

By Andromeda Romano-Lax  July 13, 2018
Feature

Against Amazon: Seven Arguments, One Manifesto

By Jorge Carrión  November 15, 2017
Profile

Annalee Newitz is Imagining the Future of Work

By Maddie Crum  October 17, 2017
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