As the United States (along with several other countries) gears up for general elections, AI is helping campaigns attract voters with increasing sophistication.

A growing number of AI models can be put to purposes their designers didn’t envision. Does that include heinous deeds?

The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?

Companies are using AI to screen and even interview job applicants. What happens when out-of-control algorithms are the human resources department?

AI researchers are starting to see ghosts in their machines. Are they hallucinations, or does a dawning consciousness haunt the trained weights?

New U.S. restrictions on chip sales aim to hamper China’s AI efforts. The U.S. government published sweeping limits on sales of processors that involve U.S. designs and technology to Chinese businesses. U.S. officials stated that the restrictions are meant to prevent China from militarizing AI.

The United States paved the way to regulate AI systems in healthcare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) interpreted existing rules that govern health-related software to include some machine learning algorithms.

A machine learning model identified areas likely to have been damaged by Hurricane Leo as it swept through the southern United States.

A state in Australia plans to outfit prisons with face recognition. Corrective Services NSW, the government agency that operates nearly every prison in New South Wales, contracted the U.S.-based IT firm Unisys to replace a previous system.

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

Even if we manage to stop robots from taking over the world, they may still have the last laugh. Researchers at Kyoto University developed a series of neural networks that enable a robot engaged in spoken conversation to chortle along with its human interlocutor.

A proposed European Union law that seeks to control AI is raising questions about what kinds of systems it would regulate. Experts at a roundtable staged by the Center for Data Innovation debated the implications of limitations in the EU’s forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Act.

A U.S. court ruled against an implementation of AI-powered software designed to catch students who cheat on academic examinations.

French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools

China’s investment in AI business, infrastructure, and research could pay off big over the next decade.