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June 2016: Self-Driving Cars
- Your Self-Driving Car Cheat Sheet
- Should Humans Turn In Their Driver’s Licenses?
- The Ethical Quandary of Self-Driving Cars
- When the Trial Lawyers Come for the Robot Cars
- Get Ready for the World of Driverless, Electric, Shared Cars
- Why Do We Blame Humans When Automation Fails?
- Can Self-Driving Cars Share the Road With Old-School Vehicles?
- The Self-Driving Car Generation Gap
- What Would Self-Driving Cars Mean for Women in Saudi Arabia?
- Why Are People So Bad at Assessing the Risks of Self-Driving Cars?
- Hostile Takeovers
- Why Police Might Pull Over Self-Driving Cars
- The Autonomous Vehicle Revolution Will Be Underwhelming
- Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Self-Driving Cars?
- Survey: Tell Us What You Think About Self-Driving Cars
- More coming soon!
May 2016: Drones
- Your Drone Cheat Sheet
- Do Drones Have to Be Creepy?
- The Rise of Nonviolent Drones
- The Six Biggest Misconceptions About Drones
- What Can Consumer Drones Actually See?
- Enough With the “Sunbathing Teenager” Gambit
- Drones Aren’t Planes
- How to Fly a Drone Without Being a Jerk
- If You Fly a Drone, So Can Police
- What Adult Swim’s “Fartcopter” Tells Us About Drones
- Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Drones?
- Survey: Tell Us What You Think About Drones
- What Slate Readers Think About Drones
April 2016: Artificial Intelligence
- Your Artificial Intelligence Cheat Sheet
- What’s the Deal With Artificial Intelligence Killing Humans?
- Killer Robots on the Battlefield
- Why It’s a Mistake To Compare A.I. with Human Intelligence
- The Challenge of Determining Whether an A.I. Is Sentient
- Event: The Terminator and Artificial Intelligence
- Let Artificial Intelligence Evolve
- Why You Can’t Teach Human Values To Artificial Intelligence
- Stuart Russell Interviewed on A.I. and Human Values
- Short Story: “Mika Model” by Paolo Bacigalupi
- When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability?
- The Threats That Artificial Intelligence Researchers Actually Worry About
- Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Killer A.I.?
- Survey: Tell Us What You Think About Artificial Intelligence
- What Slate Readers Think About Artificial Intelligence
March 2016: Cyberwar
- What’s the Deal With Cyberwar?
- Your Cyberwar Cheat Sheet
- Cyberwar Is Just as Complex as Conventional Warfare
- Inside the NSA’s Shockingly Successful Simulated Hack of the U.S. Military
- A Brief Guide to the Weapons of Cyberconflict
- The Fuzzy International Rules for War in Cyberspace
- Cyberweapons Aren’t Like Nuclear Weapons
- Will We Ever Solve Cybersecurity’s “Attribution Problem?”
- Survey: Tell Us What You Think About Cyberwar
- Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Cyberwar?
- What Slate Readers Think About the State of Cyberwar
February 2016: Algorithms
- What’s the Deal With Algorithms?
- Your Algorithms Cheat Sheet
- How to Bring Better Ethics to Data Science
- How to Teach Yourself about Algorithms
- How to Hold Governments Accountable for the Algorithms They Use
- How Algorithms Are Changing the Ways We Argue
- A Close Look at Four Government Algorithms Designed to Stop Waste and Fraud
- Algorithms Can Make Good Co-Workers
- Algorithms Are Like Kirk, Not Spock
- What Do We Not Want Algorithms to Do for Us?
- Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Algorithms?
- Survey: Tell Us What You Think About Algorithms
- What Slate Readers Think About the Power of Algorithms
January 2016: Geoengineering
- What’s the Deal with Geoengineering?
- Your Geoengineering Cheat Sheet
- The Two Questions You Should Ask Yourself About Climate Change
- What Experiments to Block Out the Sun Can’t Tell Us
- Geoengineering’s Moral Hazard Problem
- Why We Should Research Solar Geoengineering Now
- Interactive: How Geoengineering Could Affect the Global Climate
- One Way Geoengineering Might Get Started
- These Two Experts Answered Your Burning Geoengineering Questions
- Why Sci-Fi Writers Stay Away From Geoengineering
- The Good, Bad, and Ugly Approaches to Geoengineering
- Video: Three Slightly Crazy Plans Geoengineers Have to Save the World From Global Warming
- Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Geoengineering?
- Survey: Tell Us What You Think About Geoengineering
- What Slate Readers Think About Geoengineering
- Event: The Planet Remade, with Oliver Morton