Friends in digital places

If you’ve spent even a brief amount of time interacting with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, you’ll likely appreciate the technology’s potential for acting as a personal therapist. If I’m eve

Hattie Crisell reports on the midlife career challenge our generation didn’t see coming

The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, l

Would you use AI to bring deceased loved ones back to life? This month, it’s been 28 years since I lost my dad. One minute he was healthy, five months later gone at just age 64. Mum and I sat and held

Should AI be embraced or feared? Our columnist posed questions to four of the best chat services to find out

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video