social media Algorithmic anti-semitism and computational propaganda David Pescovitz

computer science A bot has been finding bugs and submitting patches for them, successfully masquerading as a human Cory Doctorow

AI Survey: corporate execs vastly overestimate customers' satisfaction Cory Doctorow

Science A machine learning system trained on scholarly journals could correct Wikipedia's gendered under-representation problem Cory Doctorow

Games Cool HOWTO on creating an AI to play 2048 Andrea James

bots On the psychological value of "griefbots" Clive Thompson

happy mutants DoNotPay bot launches a cheap airline ticket that automates the nearly impossible business of getting refunds when prices fall Cory Doctorow

fake news The future of computational propaganda Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Tweet-bot shares Prince Vultan's greatest hits Jason Weisberger

bots Forward your spam to sp@mnesty.com and a bot will waste the spammer's time Rob Beschizza

Disney The Donald Trump droid is live at Disney World's Hall of Presidents Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A twitterbot that generates hypothetical Hallmark holiday movies Cory Doctorow

twitter Find out if you are a Twitter bot with Botometer Rob Beschizza

politics Social bots as a threat to democracy David Pescovitz

Business The Donotpay bot will help you sue Equifax in small claims court Cory Doctorow

bots Russian bots are turning against GOP, attacking Republicans Carla Sinclair

twitter Alt-right bot army "rules trending topics" on Twitter Rob Beschizza

Kids Tentaclebots have finally arrived Andrea James

happy mutants The automated, invisible revert-wars of Wikipedia's bot ecosystem Cory Doctorow

artificial intelligence How "I'm not a Robot" checkboxes work Mark Frauenfelder