In Heinlein’s tale, Mike was a companion, co-conspirator, and catalyst, a friend who could make us laugh even as he plotted ...

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications ...

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the godfather of AI, has declared that current AI ...

Humanarium, a club for human connection that brings together philosophy, science, and community around the defining questions ...

After recently writing about Singularity in this column, I felt it was time to address the elephant in the room – the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness in the Age of ...

When you interact with a large language model (LLM) – one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude – it can ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

Recent remarks from leaders at artificial-intelligence companies have raised a question that until recently seemed like science-fiction. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has acknowledged that advanced ...

AI is rapidly gaining abilities that once belonged to humanity alone. In just the past four years, chatbots have learned how to build apps, make video games, generate research reports, compose songs, ...

Psychology, psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and other speculative paradigms such as shamanism, panpsychism, and collective ...