Our beliefs about AI consciousness may depend less on evidence and more on self-interest.

Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Star Trek's long-imagined "cloaking device" a reality.

AI will likely impact everything from the economy to the battlefield, but exactly how remains to be seen.

AI is challenging the idea that relationships require two conscious minds.

Journalist Namir Khaliq heads west for an inside look at how AI is upending young tech workers’ visions of the future.

Even when I don’t use AI, others might think I have.

AI psychosis may be the most visible example of something much bigger and stranger.

From robot dog fights to Victorian graveyards, historian Thomas Moynihan journeys into the city’s new avant-garde.

Max Spero discusses how AI detection has changed, the future of online trust, and why we’re in “a time of norm-building.”

Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel was full of content but short on meaning. He wasn’t the first author to grapple with the challenges of our AI age.

“How could AI fit into a world in which everyone has the ability to have a joyful life? That is the fundamental question that I am interested in answering.”

AI may exhibit consciousness, empathy, or curiosity, but only humans must find their place in the world.

As AI does more of our thinking for us, what should we work hardest to keep?

The debate gets clearer when you split it into three questions.

I thought China’s AI video boom was driven by creativity, innovation, and tech diffusion. I was wrong.

An elephant, a bumblebee queen, a flock of pigeons, and a chatbot walk into a theater.

Everyone wants to know if AI will replace their job. Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR, has a clear-eyed take from inside the lab.

Making more complicated, more precise predictive calculations tells us what real experiments should deliver. AI just surpassed humans at it.

The ability to see your options clearly and act on them has never been more valuable.

Tech journalist Joanna Stern spent a year using as many AI products as she could. It changed more than her workflow.

Machine learning tools are allowing scientists to better understand forms of intelligence that operate on spaces and timescales utterly unlike our own.

Why does life keep getting more complex? Why doesn't evolution get stuck? Physicist Stephen Wolfram has been working on this for decades. Turns out the answer is more simple (and more strange) than we expected.

If AI can someday make scientific breakthroughs, what would be left for the brightest human minds to discover?

Many think that intelligence can be outsourced to AI. Einstein wouldn't have used it. If he had, he never would have become Einstein.

Philosopher Gert Biesta on the real reason we should be wary of AI in education.

The printing press gave us objective truth. Social media made truth tribal again. AI could make it something else entirely.

"King" Willonius Hatcher, a comedian and AI storyteller, asserts that the AI revolution empowers creators to rapidly transform ideas into comprehensive projects—like pitch decks and marketing campaigns—allowing them to enhance their creative output while focusing on their core talents.

Jamir Nazir says “The Serpent in the Grove” came from a childhood memory. The internet said it came from a machine.

Neuroscientist Anil Seth on the deep differences between human minds and artificial ones.

From early arcades to AI-generated worlds, video games have continually expanded the “magic circle” of play.