Uh-oh, cue up the “ethics” of what rights to accord “conscious AI.” Or at least, that’s something Scientific American magazine chose to focus on, in a recent article covering at least one advanced AI’s declaration that it might be gaining consciousness.
The idea of beaming electric power through the air has been a dream since the days of Nikola Tesla more than a century ago. Now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is taking steps toward making it happen through its Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program.
Psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in a family of mushrooms, is the new headliner in mental health treatment.
Wegovy and Ozempic are wildly popular, and hugely expensive, brand names for semaglutide, a compound that melts body weight—but at too high a cost to your body.
Have you noticed how it's getting more challenging to find non-mainstream health info in your search results lately? That's not your imagination—it's a deliberate tactic employed by Google to control the information you see.
From the vantage point of 21st-century Washington, DC, the French Revolution of 1789 may seem a distant historical event. Yet its lessons remain profoundly relevant.
Go back to 2 April when President Trump announced his Liberation Day tariff war policies. Threatening to impose skyrocketing tariffs on nations across the globe, the equity markets tanked.
Chief AI Officers in Major Agencies—Executive Order 14110 mandates large federal departments to appoint Chief AI Officers, including GSA, DOE, DHS, Veterans Affairs, and Education.
On 23 July, Donald Trump signed three executive orders calling for the accelerated expansion of the U.S.’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry and announced an “AI Action Plan.”
Why do generative AI chatbots need to be prompted to impersonate fantasy roles in order to provide (supposedly) better content, or answers to queries?