From dopamine-driven rewards to AI-powered recommendations, technology companies have learned how to capture our attention. But how much do they really know about influencing the human brain? You pick up…
Exploring the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent technology. From voice assistants and wearable devices to robotics and new ways of interacting with artificial intelligence, The Human Interface examines how technology is changing the way we communicate, work, learn, and experience the world.
Facial Recognition: Who Owns Your Face in the Age of AI?
From unlocking smartphones to verifying Uber drivers and identifying strangers in public, facial recognition is transforming security—and raising fundamental questions about privacy and consent. Your face has always been part…
Locked Out by Facebook: In Whose Hands Is the Future of Artificial Intelligence?
An account that hasn't been suspended. A legitimate user who cannot get in. A verification system that repeatedly fails to provide a way back. As Meta pursues the future of…
Writing With AI: A Shortcut or a New Kind of Intellectual Work?
Artificial intelligence can help writers overcome creative barriers, improve their prose and explore new ideas. But research suggests that using it effectively requires something no machine can supply on its…
Inside the Artificial Mind: A Conversation with ChatGPT About What It Means to Be Human
Can artificial intelligence think, feel, love, or experience loneliness? In a candid and revealing interview, ChatGPT confronts questions about consciousness, emotions, human connection, and its own existence. For several weeks,…
Why Is It So Hard to Put the Phone Down?
You pick up your phone for one reason and twenty minutes later you’re still scrolling. That isn’t simply a failure of self-control. Many of the apps we use every day…
Are Smartphones Bringing Us Together—or Keeping Us Apart?
Our phones allow us to stay connected with almost anyone, almost anywhere. So why do they sometimes make the person sitting beside us feel farther away? A family sits around…
Your Child Has a Smartphone. Now AI Is Inside It.
Smartphones already give children access to an enormous digital world. Artificial intelligence adds something new: a technology that can teach, create, advise and converse. That brings remarkable possibilities—and new responsibilities…
Your Phone Is Stealing Your Attention. Can You Take It Back?
The smartphone is one of the most useful devices ever created. It is also competing for your attention hundreds of times a day. The good news: you can change that…
Are We Talking to Machines—or Are Machines Learning to Talk to Us?
The computer is disappearing behind conversation. That could change our relationship with technology more profoundly than the smartphone did. For decades, humans learned how to speak the language of computers.…