We see consciousness in AI the same way we see faces in clouds, says neuroscientist Anil Seth. He explores the all-too-human tendency to project inner life onto machines that are brilliant mimics, not...

An artificial intelligence model from the Mayo Clinic detected abnormalities on scans up to three years before patients were diagnosed. It's being evaluated in a clinical trial.

This research paper examines, from a multidimensional perspective (cognitive, social, ethical, and philosophical), how AI is transforming human thought. It highlights a cognitive offloading effect: th...

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

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Senator Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.

If you were waiting for a sign that superintelligence is coming, this is it

Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”

If the region fails to lead on safe and secure AI, it risks remaining stuck on the wrong side of the tech wall

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Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections.

Australian start-up Cortical Labs and UK’s bit.bio have built CL1 with the aim of creating ‘synthetic biological intelligence’

The arrangement puts money in Trump’s pocket in return for the opportunity to change policy — exactly the sort of pay-to-play scheme critics warned about.

Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about existence

The only government agency to face more loathing than the IRS may soon see its days cut short. U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) hav

How can nonprofits and activists respond to the rising threat of authoritarianism? A former Maryland governor calls on states to hold Trump officials criminally liable.

Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exi...

Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool. The developer community isn't terribly pleased.

The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

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Some studies have received hundreds of thousands of citations, Nature’s updated analysis shows.

My face is apparently more charismatic than John F. Kennedy’s or Beyoncé’s. So why am I not winning?