Steve Lohr

It’s a notorious energy hog. But artificial intelligence can also foster innovation and discovery, and it could speed the global transition to cleaner power.

Es una conocida consumidora de energía. Pero la inteligencia artificial también puede fomentar la innovación y el descubrimiento, y acelerar la transición mundial hacia una energía más limpia.

A routine software update by a security company crashed millions of computers around the world. The chaos was telling.

A project at Stanford points to the need for institutional innovation, especially in government, to increase the odds that A.I. enhances democracy.

New research shows that 73 “launchpad jobs” can help those without a four-year college degree advance and achieve higher pay.

Most members of a DealBook Summit panel described immense benefits from artificial intelligence and saw its risks as manageable.

As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, new research predicts.

Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was.

A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.

An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.