by The New Yorker | Jun 20, 2022 | Workforce
In the late nineteen-forties, Delmar Harder, a vice-president at Ford, popularized the term “automation”—a “nickname,” he said, for the increased mechanization at the company’s Detroit factory. Harder was mostly talking about the automatic transfer of car parts...
by The New Yorker | Feb 9, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence
The Rise of A.I. Fighter PilotsOn a cloudless morning last May, a pilot took off from the Niagara Falls International Airport, heading for restricted military airspace over Lake Ontario. The plane, which bore the insignia of the United States Air Force, was a...