At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

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“I teach computer science, and that is all,” wrote Boaz Barak, of Harvard University, in a recent op-ed in The New York Times. a The main point of the op-ed was to protest the growing politicization ...

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