In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

As internet access spreads across the globe, formal religious affiliation tends to fall. A new study of 81 countries links three decades of digital expansion to a steady decline in traditional religio...

Digital spaces that simulate indulgences like shopping and ordering food have taken off worldwide. Experts in human behavior say there are real reasons for their appeal.

Helen Toner, who served on OpenAI’s board, hopes the recent hack by that company’s models serves as a warning.

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

Sean Duffy has derided bike lanes as too woke, and is now stripping mentions of them from federal websites.

Much recent sociological work on religion in the United States is written outside the field’s two established paradigms: secularization theory and the 1990s “re...

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Trump targeted his former supporters who have turned on him in the past few months and have criticized his decision to go to war against Iran.

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