Large language models like ChatGPT and Claude are predicted to play an increasing role in our lives. Opinions vary from fears that they will take over the world (Hunt, 2023), like HAL in 2001: A Space ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI, and sees bots as key to user engagement. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo An internal Meta Platforms document detailing ...

Maybe you’ve heard about a new phenomenon called "ChatGPT-induced psychosis." There have been several stories in the news of people using ChatGPT and spiraling into psychological breakdowns. Some ...

After talking to ChatGPT for nearly five hours, and inventing a brand-new physics framework dubbed “The Orion Equation,” the user who identified as a gas-station worker in Oklahoma decided he had had ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...

In the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's south side, nearly 100 people were shot last year, and many of the young people living there will tell you the violence weighs on them. "It affect me as a ...

Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, false narratives can be incredibly sticky. Many people insist that the earth is flat, that childhood vaccines cause autism, or that climate change is a hoax, ...