Technology

Social companions can read emotions and help with daily tasks

In the next year or two, we’ll have sophisticated, purpose-built bots designed for relationships, sex and intimacy

Ultra-realistic digital trickery will help fraudsters deceive people on an entirely new scale

AI will replace traditional forms of academic assessment—and create new ones

The more confusion these deepfakes sow, the more people will accuse each other of faking everything. You’re not going to believe what you see. You’re going to disbelieve what you don’t like. 

Militaries will use AI to wage deadlier biological and chemical warfare. But what if the technology turns against us?

AI algorithms can reduce food waste,  add more nutrition and solve some of our restaurant-staffing woes

We’ll use machine learning to predict illness before it starts, reducing pressure on the health-care system

The new AI might help criminals take down power grids or infiltrate electric vehicle networks

"The human dimension to the problem of the future of AI—how people will react to the new tools—is at least as unknowable as the technology itself"