Are Robots Going to Take Over the World?!?!?

Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE animals, especially my two cats! Where better to find a fellow animal lover than a veterinarian. Dr. Tannetje Crocker was kind enough to hang out with me and teach me so much about our favorite furry friends. Her expertise has significantly h ...  Show more

This is Part 3 of my "Why I got Divorced" saga. Part 2 ended with me being out of town on a work trip, with the kid who was feeding my cats letting me know that when he came to my house my ex-husband was already inside my home taking things out of it without my knowledge or permi ...  Show more

Just as manufacturing automation cuts into human jobs, the prospect of creative artificial intelligence raises the specter of robot writers, robot artists and robot musicians who never sleep and always agree with their patron. But paranoia aside, where will creative machine le ...

Guest host Adam Davidson looks at what might happen to your job in a world of human-level artificial intelligence, and asks when it might be time to worry that the machines have become too powerful. (Part 2 of "<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/how-to-think-about-a ...

It’s been claimed artificial intelligence will be as revolutionary as mobile phones or the internet, but there are fears that developments in AI could come at the cost of jobs. We assess the pros and cons of this rapidly-evolving technology, with insight from Marc Raibert, Execut ...  Show more

In the coming years, artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life -- and likely the entire world. But people have a hard time agreeing on exactly how AI will affect our society. Can we build AI systems that help us fix the world? Or are we doomed to a robotic tak ...  Show more