For decades, artificial intelligence has existed only in our fiction. We’ve imagined intelligent computer programs and malicious machines in everything from Terminator and The Matrix to I, Robot, and ...

You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent scientific research has been seriously ...

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a breathtaking pace, the conversation has shifted from What can AI do? to ...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research contends that developing scientific tests ...

The rush toward artificial general intelligence has sparked both hype and caution. In a recent interview, Anthropic’s CEO was ...

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in AI’s ability to engage in conversational style text (called natural language ...

In his new book A World Appears, the journalist explores the mysteries of the human brain — and whether computers could ever ...

Generative AI systems clearly contribute to knowledge production. They synthesize vast amounts of data, reorganize information and generate structured responses that appear reasoned and coherent. But ...

The only reasonable stance on conscious AI is “agnosticism”: that we won’t, and may never, be able to tell, says a philosophy-of-consciousness expert. This gulf in our knowledge could be exploited by ...