The deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is speculating that the proliferation of artificial intelligence will have a bigger impact on the nation than the Industrial Revolution. "This is a ...

Was the Industrial Revolution the most important event in human history? Dan Snow is joined by economist and journalist Duncan Weldon to explore why exactly the industrial revolution started on the ...

The outgoing British chief scientific adviser has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could prove as transformational as the Industrial Revolution, urging politicians to act immediately to ...

Artificial intelligence may rival steam, electricity, and computing—but history suggests its full economic impact will take time ...

Most mainstream coverage of artificial intelligence takes one of three forms: what happens to jobs as automation spreads; concern about embedding the results of past unfairness into new AI-fuelled ...

What if the most fantastic revolution in human history wasn’t one of steam engines or assembly lines, but one of algorithms and neural networks? The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is not just ...