Are robots coming for us and our work? The dystopian answer to that question is clearly “yes,” a perspective that has dominated our conversation about artificial beings ever since the word “robot” was ...

One of Audrey Watters’s observations in her deeply researched Teaching Machines is that ed-tech evangelists seldom make an effort to learn the history of educational technologies. For those ...

Are you tired of telling machines what to do and what not to do? It’s a large part of regular people’s days – operating dishwashers, smartphones and cars. It’s an even bigger part of life for ...

From the 1920s American psychologists experimented with teaching using machines. Inspired, in part, by the expansion of schooling, especially at the secondary level; the success of paper-and-pencil ...

It may be humanity’s largest art project ever–teaching machines to understand the art of how to be human. "You can't actually teach a machine to understand humans unless you also teach them to ...

As I was reading Audrey Watters’s Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning, recently published by MIT Press, the word “landmark” kept occurring to me.[1] This is a landmark book. It is ...

Before giving machines a sense of morality, humans have to first define morality in a way computers can process. A difficult but not impossible task. Although this future is still decades away, ...

Arend Hintze receives funding from NSF and Strength in Numbers Game Company. Are you tired of telling machines what to do and what not to do? It’s a large part of regular people’s days – operating ...