Artificial intelligence
Explore our coverage of artificial intelligence, from its technical underpinnings to its social, political and economic consequences
Science & technology
AI models are helping dirty industries go green
Mining companies and steelmakers are feeling the benefits
By Invitation
To keep on top of AI, focus on the points where it touches the outside world, writes Martin Chavez
The Alphabet director suggests drawing inspiration from the way financial markets and railways are policed
Leaders
How AI could help the climate
The technology could help decarbonise the industries that have proved the hardest to clean up
International
There is a vast hidden workforce behind AI
Will they become redundant as the technology develops?
Science & technology
Could data centres ever be built in orbit?
A startup called Starcloud has plans to do just that
Science & technology
The tricky task of calculating AI’s energy use
Making models less thirsty may not lessen their environmental impact
Science & technology
AI models can help generate cleaner power
Energy companies are using them to increase efficiency and spot problems
Babbage
Will AI help or harm the climate?
Our podcast on science and technology. The race to build better AI models has a huge environmental cost. But the technology could also help to decarbonise the world
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Business
China and America are racing to develop the best AI. But who is ahead in using it?
The race is closer than many in America would like to believe
Science & technology
Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models actually “think”
They plan sentences far in advance. They also bullshit themselves when reasoning out loud
By Invitation
Dan Hendrycks warns America against launching a Manhattan Project for AI
The conditions in which the atomic bomb was produced can’t be replicated in the race for superintelligence, writes the AI-safety expert