Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

Merz’s response to the new world situation he described could just as well have come from one of Hitler’s programmatic speeches in the early 1930s.

The Iranian auteur spoke emotionally in Rotterdam about the violent crackdown on protesters at home, as he premiered 'Sense ...

As this year’s Oscar nominations prove, film audiences are embracing stories from around the world. Here are the Cincinnati ...

In the late 1990s, before algorithms defined taste, before platforms flattened culture into recommended rows of thumbnails, music discovery still relied on randomness. Napster was messy, mislabeled, ...

As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

A group of Australian scientists have revealed how we may be able to learn to speak with aliens, and the answer is found right here on Earth.

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...