The administration’s approach to AI encourages fast development and pre-empting state laws

They’ve got their whole careers ahead of them, and they’re navigating a technology with a still-uncertain impact

In a time of AI sex and looksmaxxing, a new book calls on humans to rediscover intimacy.

AI chatbots offer relationships that are low effort and completely personalized—and hollow.

Throwback messaging using toys and videogames—with a dash of AI—is lowering defenses and opening new avenues for the information wars between rival states

At companies that can do anything, the most important thing is focus. Steve Jobs made it a priority at Apple—and OpenAI and Anthropic are learning why.

As our adoption of artificial intelligence grows, so does our belief that the machines are sentient. That’s a fluke of evolution, say researchers. ...Or do others not understand consciousness is not a human-only attribute?

Innovations including a centered driving position, fast charging and a 500-mile range are winning over drivers

The AI sprint is hurtling toward a world where anyone can build personal concierges to do everything from executive presentations to March Madness brackets

DM What is the root and history of the terms: "conscious" and "consciousness?" This is a rich enough question that I can dive straight into it — the etymology runs deep. Let me do a proper research dig into the full linguistic, philosophical, and historical roots. Your research report on the history of "consciousness" is ready. It traces the word's evolution from Latin conscientia(shared guilty knowledge) through its 17th-century philosophical transformation by Descartes, Loc

The question is no longer how artificial intelligence affects jobs. It’s how AI affects the very architecture of businesses.

Annual assessment of Office of the Director of National Intelligence notes AI's use in combat, economic competitiveness—but skips disinformation.

In his new book, Futureproof , Kevin Roose provides useful advice for humans on life amid rampant automation.

It’s the most urgent question about artificial intelligence — and one of the hardest to answer.

DM Are consciousness and sentience synonyms? Please don't be anthropocentric in your answer(s)! No, they're not synonyms — though they're deeply entangled, and the conflation is itself a revealing symptom of the anthropocentrism you're wisely flagging. Sentience is generally the more basic, evolutionarily ancient capacity: the ability to have subjective experience  — particularly to feel, to register valence (pleasant/unpleasant), to suffer or flourish in some phenomenal sens

An AI crash could bring down the economy. Some in the tech world think that’s the price of progress.

Techies compare notes on how long their fleet of virtual interns can labor away without making a mistake

And why you should hire them to survive in a world of chaos.

The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

The spread of fake imagery of the Iran war is helping make the question Is this real? all but unanswerable.