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.

Lachlan McCalman works for Data61, a business unit of CSIRO. You may have heard that algorithms will take over the world. But how are they operating right now? We take a look in our series on ...

t’s not too early to think about how machines and artificial intelligence (AI) will make tough but ethical decisions. How will an autonomous car facing an unavoidable accident decide whether to injure ...

What would it take to teach a machine to make ethical decisions? Using neural network technology, a research team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by Dr. Yejin Choi recently ...