Artificial intelligence’s dystopian specter has spawned a pair of documentaries dissecting a technology that’s depicted as ravenous parasite devouring humanity’s knowledge, creativity and empathy.

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures ...

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CEO Sam Altman tried to ease worries about domestic surveillance as opposition builds over rival Anthropic’s labeling as a ...

Government officials have said little about Trump’s most recent social media post on the matter. The president cited “tremendous interest” in the files, whatever they might contain. Perhaps the most ...

Anthropic’s moral stand on U.S. military use of artificial intelligence is reshaping the competition between leading AI companies but also exposing a growing awareness that maybe chatbots just aren’t ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

An anonymous user on the prediction market Kalshi just placed a massive bet on the US confirming the existence of aliens.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Thursday that the DOD has "no interest" in using Anthropic's models for fully ...

One of the biggest societal conversations right now is the artificial intelligence boom, and it’s no surprise as to why — with the rise of OpenAI and the integration of AI into most social media ...

Astronomers used the VLA and MeerKAT radio telescopes to search the Hycean exoplanet K2-18b for alien technosignatures, analyzing millions of signals but finding no confirmed artificial radio transmis ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...