Watch a subscriber-only conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology. Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” ...

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype, with companies making breathless claims about hacking, mathematical breakthroughs, and the prospect of self-improving superintelligence.

Emily M. Bender is professor of linguistics at the University of Washington and coauthor of The AI Con. Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it ...

We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s  surveillance towers. Here’s our methodology.

The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen federal oversight.

In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist.

AN MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INVESTIGATION Dying on Camera The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will ...

One of the ways AI could potentially cause catastrophic harm is by aiding the design and creation of bioweapons. In 2022, researchers found that it was remarkably easy to do this with an AI “molecule ...

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few.

Without being overly alarmist, this should serve as a wake-up call for our colleagues in the ‘AI in drug discovery’ community,” the authors wrote at the time. It was a wake-up call for David Magnus, a ...