Four illustrious guides to a crucial cycle

Enhancing domestic security, using new technologies and negotiating guardrails could lessen the risk of mass-casualty events

The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?

Revisiting Chekhov’s literary prescriptions for our divided times.

Will general-purpose LLMs control future robots?

After the Holocaust, classical composers explored music’s capacity to commemorate historical trauma without permitting horrific events to take on the allure of facile beauty.

Explore how high powered microwaves are revolutionizing anti-drone operations on the modern battlefield.

As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy

Complaining about the capital is a national pastime — for good reason

Generative AI is poised to play a dramatically more intimate and important role in parasocial and social relationships, displacing human influencers, entertaine

Need for giant airport hubs is being challenged by rise of long-range narrow-body planes that go to places their bigger predecessors couldn’t

AI, social media and large tech companies are increasingly influencing how we communicate, vote and live together. In this lecture, Claes de Vreese shows how AI is ‘creeping’ into democratic processes...

Self-imposed limits need not be impediments to a fulfilling life

Homeowners like me are staying put, the market is frozen and affordability is as ugly as it was in the housing bubble

OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.

Melbourne Theatre CompanyWhile the cast is excellent, Eliza lacks real emotion – a play that sends us back to AI’s genesis moment should feel more human than this

Over the course of his life Jürgen Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.

Formal probes into major developers' AI cybersecurity practices are ramping up as companies begin the work to adopt a new self-regulatory safety framework laid out by U.S. President Donald Trump.

A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates

Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.

Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.

SB 574 also bars arbitrators from relinquishing their decision-making powers to generative artificial intelligence.

What is singular and novel about the current threat is that it was born out of the private sector

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the p...

In industry rhetoric, a radical intentionalist stance dominates any interpretation of model behavior, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Letter: An awareness campaign isn’t enough. The UK should ban commercial sunbeds, writes Dr Amy Perkins

When we put our literature, games and films into AI models, we risk replacing our cultural history with a mishmash of auto-generated works. We desperately need to preserve human writing, says columnis...

Discussion has focused on behavioral outcomes. But Meta’s settlement shines a light on damage to young people’s emerging desires and identities

Good habits by consumers can stymie scams, but US regulations have fallen behind the technology.