Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage

No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived — only the diminishment of the magic and excitement of human writing.

Mysterious Human Relative Was Bigger Than Previously Thought

Making robots faster by helping them think ahead

Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.

The Peptide Gray Market Is Already Here. The FDA Is Just Catching Up.

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

Future of giant monkey research facility uncertain, even as sanctuary plan dropped

Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother

Companies’ Reporting on Race and Sex Could Come to an End

Second Circuit Reinstates Death Penalty Charges in Buffalo Supermarket Federal Murder Trial

AI distills “the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.” That's why its output is, put simply, slop 

Record of Human Migration Hiding in the DNA of a Musky Rodent

Why Are We Using Machines to Study Our Inner Lives?

A New Tool for Combating Human Trafficking

For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative 

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

Open Thread

Is There Actually an Error in the Supreme Court's Analysis in Loper Bright?

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

When Stupid Was a Diagnosis