Artificial Intelligence
Vox’s coverage of how AI is shaping everything from text and image generation to how we live.


The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI.

ChatGPT can talk like a person. You shouldn’t think of it as one.


Sam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission?


The alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse.


Now comes the hard part: Congress.


The battle over how large language models can use published works is just beginning. Copyright law isn’t ready.


AI will play a major role in how children born today experience the world. It’s up to us whether that’s for the better, or the worse.

The founders of Anthropic quit OpenAI to make a safe AI company. It’s easier said than done.


Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have a vision for generative AI. Will it work?


AI doesn’t have to be superintelligent to cause serious havoc.


Exclusive: 63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals.


Microsoft was first to AI search, but Google’s Bard can now pull stuff in from Gmail, Docs, Maps, and more.

The dehumanizing philosophy of AI is built on a hatred of our animal nature.

From R.U.R. to Mrs. Davis, humans have feared — and identified with — robots for over a century.

Fiction has long wondered if AI can love. We just might find out.

It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.

We already rely on AI to find our soulmate, and soon we might use it to hack death. But we risk losing what it means to be human.


Once again, this year’s phones will look a lot like last year’s. But real innovation is on the horizon.


Generative AI tools are generating less interest than just a few months ago.


It takes forever to get drugs on the market. AI could help speed up the process.


Zoom returns to the office — and to its problematic privacy ways.


Biological risks from artificial intelligence may be substantial and need to be monitored


If AI really is risky, then opening it up could be a major mistake.


ChatGPT, Midjourney, and other tools are forcing Biden and Congress to take AI seriously.


Companies like OpenAI and Google could make unthinkable profits from successful AI. Will they share the wealth?


The AI debate splitting the tech world, explained.


AI systems train on your data. What can you do about it?


A handful of AI companies have made safety commitments. Is that enough?


America’s biggest companies are hiring AI leadership as fast as they can.


How automation wiped out a whole career for young women — and how young women adapted.


Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots.


Understand how ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E are transforming our world — from text and image generation to how we live and work.


A group of experts and “superforecasters” try to estimate the probability humans will go extinct by 2100.


“Arms race” is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.


There’s something missing in the heart of the conversation about AI.


What the history of nuclear arms can — and can’t — tell us about the future of AI.

At Cannes Lions, the year’s biggest ad event, you couldn’t escape talk of ChatGPT or Midjourney, even at the yacht parties.


The AI specialist is the new “it” girl in tech.


Joan Is Awful — but AI is magic?


New research highlights how language-generating AI models could make it easier to create dangerous germs.