Chinese internet company Tencent last week published a 1000-word article written by a robot. How nervous should human writers be?
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Someone killed hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot – can humans be trusted?
HitchBOT was on a mission to criss-cross the United States with the help of strangers, but the hitchhiking robot came up far short of its San Francisco destination, after it was destroyed in a vicious attack in Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love.
Artificial Intelligence expert likens AI dangers to nuclear weapons
Stuart Russell is an award-winning AI researcher and author who says we need to be as careful with AI as we are with nukes.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds pooh-poohs fears over Artificial Intelligence
The creator of the Linux kernel has joined the all-star cast of tech-somebodies with something to say about Artificial Intelligence but he’s distinctly off message.
Fed up with losing email to your spam folder? Gmail’s artificial intelligence wants to help
Google is arming bulk email senders with spam smarts so that you get more of the emails you want and spend less time dumpster-diving for missing email.
1 in 5 experts believe artificial intelligence will pose an ‘existential threat’
A significant minority of experts working in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), about 18%, believe that AI will one day pose an ‘existential threat’ to humanity.
Will Artificial Intelligence keep humans as pets?
Steve Wozniak is the latest tech luminary to sound a note of caution about the potentially apocalyptic dangers of Artificial Intelligence. 
Artificial Intelligence could make us extinct, warn Oxford University researchers
Researchers from Oxford University have joined the growing chorus of sober, intelligent, technology literate people warning about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence by listing it as one of twelve risks that pose a threat to human civilisation or even all human life.
US Military wants to replace passwords with “cognitive fingerprints”
DARPA has awarded researchers at the US military’s elite West Point military academy a multi-million dollar contract to produce a replacement for password authentication based on “cognitive fingerprints”
Facebook head of AI wants to stop you from posting things you may later regret
Facebook AI is on track to stop you from drunkenly posting photos of yourself at a party for all the world (and your mom, and your boss) to see.