AI Is Infiltrating the U.S. Government

Artificial intelligence has long sparked dystopian fears in the public imagination: What will human society become when it can reason not just faster, but also more deeply, than we can? What will we do when computers are able to take actions beyond human control?

Yet while speculation has raged about this this so-called singularity, AI has achieved something else at least as breathtaking—and almost entirely unanticipated. In the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump’s…