Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is — or might one day become — truly intelligent.

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Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here’s how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.

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The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

The impressive progresses in machine learning have revived the fear that humans might eventually be wiped out or enslaved by artificial superintelligences. This is hardly a new fear. For example, t…

Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Romain Brette about the brain and various theoretical concepts in neuroscience.

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Ce texte est ma courte contribution aux assises pour l’Université et pour la Recherche (3-4/9/2026), concernant le financement de la recherche. La recherche repose sur deux principes indissoc…

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Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

Our summer reading list includes books on the Human Brain Project, the neuroscience of motherhood and the career of a Huntington’s disease researcher.

A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.

The current discussions about AI are plagued with anthropomorphism. Of course, the name “artificial intelligence” has probably something to do with the matter. A conscious artificial intelligence m…

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Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu...

Kathryn Nave explains how a concept called constraint closure may be fundamental to understanding brains, minds and cognition.

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Mary Beard I am a Booker prize judge this year. So most of my summer will be consumed by reading fiction (which obviously has its pleasures). But I shall be varying the diet with a drop or two of nonfiction....

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Anticipation is a hallmark of all living phenomena, from bacteria to humans. If I notice a cloudy sky, I may take an umbrella to avoid getting wet. In cyanob...