In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

The literary merits—and potential dangers—of artificial intelligence were a hot topic at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ annual conference, held March 4–7 in Baltimore.

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...