Richard Yonck writes extensively about emerging technologies and the many issues we’ll face in tomorrow’s world. The former computing and AI contributing editor for The Futurist magazine, Richard has written hundreds of feature articles, cover stories and posts for a wide range of publications and websites. His best-selling books explore the developing world of artificial intelligence and what it will mean for our world in the near and distant futures. Richard frequently writes about many of the anticipated advances in artificial intelligence, which has also been the focus of his books. He also covers issues around ethics, automation and the workforce, space exploration, big data, surveillance and cybercrime.
Selected Articles, Papers and Interviews
AI2 creating an open generative AI language model ‘by scientists, for scientists’
GeekWire
AI2 researchers release new multimodal approach to boost AI capabilities using images and audio
GeekWire
Interview – Busan Worldwide
BeFM
‘Huge amount of future will be happening through Asia’
The Korea Herald
The Road to 2050 Series
The Franklin Institute
New AI model shows how machines can learn from vision, language and sound together
GeekWire
Researchers develop reactor that refines waste carbon into chemicals while generating hydrogen
GeekWire
Teaching artificial intelligence right from wrong: New tool from AI2 aims to model ethical judgments
GeekWire
Carbon and Silicon Webinar
IITPSA
Q&A with Amazon Alexa chief Rohit Prasad on the future of ambient computing
GeekWire
This startup aims to improve workplace conversations with ’empathy-as-a-service’ software
GeekWire
Researchers create ‘Shadow Figment’ cybersecurity decoy tech that lures attackers into a fake world
GeekWire
Researchers develop new way to help machine-generated language systems reduce toxic language
GeekWire
Can machine learning help save the whales? How PNW researchers use tech tools to monitor orcas
GeekWire
Why Deepfake Geography Presents Significant Risks
GeekWire
The Curse of Neural Toxicity
GeekWire
How researchers are mapping the future of quantum computing, using the tech of today
GeekWire
The Future of Artificial Emotional Awareness
Psychology Today
Finding Our Path to a Smarter World
Futurist.com
Westworld, Emotion, and the Dilemma of Machine Consciousness (Parts I & II)
Psychology Today
Future Reflections on the Developing Emotion Economy
Affectiva
Welcome To The Emotion Economy, Where AI Responds To—And Predicts—Your Feelings
Fast Company
Empathy: The Killer App for Artificial Intelligence
Digitalist
A Robot May Be Training to Do Your Job. Don’t Panic.
New York Times
The Dawn of the Space Mining Age
Scientific American
“Optocapacitance” Shines New Light on the Brain
Scientific American
Facing Up to Online Murder and Other Cybercrimes
Scientific American
Is All the Universe From Nothing?
Scientific American
How Your Computer Will Read You Like A Book–And Then Sell You Stuff
Fast Company
The Emotional Machine and You
Psychology Today
Connecting with Our Connected World
The Futurist
Are You Smarter Than a Sixth-Generation Computer?
The Futurist
Toward a Standard Metric of Machine Intelligence
World Future Review
The Hacking of Human 2.0
H+ Magazine
Treading in the Sea of Data
The Futurist
Can Machines Be Intelligent?
Psychology Today
Technically Speaking
Mensa Bulletin
Challenges & Opportunities in Space Medicine
The Futurist
The Age of the Interface
The Futurist
Get Smart
Mensa Bulletin
Interview with Vernor Vinge
FutureNovo
The Future of Advertising
Mensa Bulletin
Interview with Ian Pearson
FutureNovo
Holographic Motion Picture Systems
American Cinematographer