Shira Ovide

Voters are worried about AI and don’t trust either political party to handle the rapidly evolving technology, according to a new national NBC News survey. A majority of registered voters, 57 percent, said they believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits, compared with 34 percent who said the opposite.

Facing a public worried that highly intelligent computers and a new generation of robots are coming for their jobs, the White House is embarking on a campaign to show that artificial intelligence (AI) will actually unleash an economic renaissance—and that President Donald Trump deserves a large dose of the credit. A report issued by the president’s economic advisers calls it the “Trump Revolution.” In the White House’s telling, America is pulling ahead in the race to dominate AI technology, priming the economy for rapid growth and helping the nation surpass China and Europe.

Home internet service is one of the least transparent consumer products in America. You can find typical airfare prices and know if you’re getting a bad deal. But basic information about internet service — What’s the typical price? What extra costs are in my bill?

There’s an irony with Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service beamed from space: The more popular it becomes, the worse its speeds and reliability tend to get.

A growing number of organizations, including Wikipedia, Reddit, 

A federal judge said on August 5 that Google broke the law to kneecap competition in web search in ways that entrenched the company’s power. The next steps, which involve proposing legal fixes to undo Google’s behavior, are essentially about imagining an alternative future in which Google isn’t Google as we know it. We have the internet we have, and it’s hard to imagine something different or if you’d like it more, but here are six possible alternati

The pandemic created a sense of urgency about bringing internet access to more people and empowering them to use technology as a necessity of modern life.

There are useful lessons from a saga over home internet service in Canada. What has been a promising, albeit imperfect, system that increased choices and improved internet service for Canadians is poised to fall apart.

There is no silver bullet to the complex economic, cultural, technical and policy barriers to bringing more of the world’s citizens online. Advocates of expanding internet use say that being connected is an economic engine and increasingly a necessity of modern life. An internet connection is also a minimum condition for internet companies to reach potential customers.

Home internet is one of the most maddening services in the United States. But since the pandemic showed just how bad things have become, we’re beginning to see some change. Decades of one failed policy show how far the US has to go to achieve better, fairer online access for all. Over the past two decades, government regulators have written and rewritten rules that have landed on a straightforward goal: that Americans who live in apartment buildings may pick their internet provider, even if the landlord has a preferred provider.