Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

Surveillance Valley, a book about the secret military history of the Internet. In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine traces the history of the internet back to its beginnings as a Vietnam-era tool for ...

Also: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school.

Mysterianism is the idea that human cognition, mind, cannot be understood. Taking this concept and applying it to known mechanism — such that claims are made that we do not know how engineered systems...

The fallen founder’s doomsday ideology helped put him behind bars.

An Act to make provision for securing computer material against unauthorised access or modification; and for connected purposes.

Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

More than one million genomes helped identify DNA variants linked to extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and more. Researchers measured how those traits influenced how people lived.

The action in the Los Angeles Unified School District comes after officials adopted strict screen time limits.

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.

Register for Max Weinreich's talk, The crisis of AI-generated mathematics, in the Math and AI series.

MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.