Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. In his hands-on, skill-building course, professor Das ...

The concern of machine ethics and laws spills into the everyday workings of society, not just the domain of defense. Many concepts revolve around the law of armed conflict, societal law, ethical ...

In 2016, researchers from the MIT Media Lab launched an experiment. They wanted to understand how people wanted self-driving cars to act, so they built a website where anyone could experience 13 ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) development progresses, experts have begun considering how best to give an AI system an ethical or moral backbone. A popular idea is to teach AI to behave ethically by ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a buzzword or a concept reserved for science fiction. It's increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives, from the virtual assistants on our ...

Of all AI's uses, none is as controversial as its ability to generate images. The internet is home to numerous AI image generators that can create pictures quickly and at little cost (some are even ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Data61 provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. CSIRO provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. You may have heard that algorithms will take over the world. But how ...

Machines are rapidly learning to think on their own, but will the robot revolution lead to a modern utopia – or an apocalypse? Government officials say autonomous vehicles will make transportation ...