We’re now deep into the AI era, where every week brings another feature or task that AI can accomplish. But given how far down the road we already are, it’s all the more essential to zoom out and ask bigger questions about where we’re headed, how to ...

Perfect AI alignment with human values and interests is mathematically impossible, according to a study, but behavioral diversity among AI agents offers the promise of some control. Published in PNAS Nexus, Hector Zenil and colleagues used Gödel's ...

As technology developers and researchers rush to develop autonomous AI research tools (i.e., systems that independently perform tasks by designing their workflows and utilizing available tools) an urgent but rarely discussed question is: Do we really need such tools at all?

Martha Wells’ Platform Decay, the eighth installment in the Murderbot Diaries series, debuted May 5 as a New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller — and landed in the middle of a live technical debate it has been dramatizing since 2017.

​For two decades, escalation culture has been the default operating system of ambitious tech companies. Push harder. Add headcount. When a problem appears, throw engineers at it until it surrenders. The logic was simple: more inputs, more outputs.

Anthropic called for a coordinated slowdown in AI development, warning that AI capabilities could advance faster than society can adapt.