Rene Descartes said “I think. Therefore, I am.” Now that AI can think like a human, perhaps we should amend Descartes’ ...

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

Eric Horvitz Ph.D. ’91 M.D. ’94, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, anticipated the current era of artificial intelligence (AI) will go beyond a technological shift, describing fundamental changes ...

A resurfaced military interview presents extraordinary claims about extraterrestrial intelligence, the scientific confirmation of a single creator, and technology that may blur the boundary between ...

Unintended Consequences #3: The Sine Qua Non of Human Existence Source: Vladimir Kayukov/Shutterstock Agriculture created the need for an increasing number of calculations including methods of ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in one form or another, but only recently have we gained the tools and ...

In my first reflection on AI and how to live well with AI technology I concluded, based on the recent lecture by Stephen Fry and the new book Nexus by Yuval Harari, that there was a manifest need for ...