Sometimes, to make a good video game, developers have to push the boundaries. Players don’t mind jumping on Goombas and squishing them in the Mario games, but if players had to do that to humans in ...

The president refused to be pinned down on the ET question, instead turning it into an attack on former President Barack ...

Refugees who were lawfully admitted to the United States could be arrested if they have not yet obtained a green card, a change to previous policy that is the Trump administration’s latest effort to ...

About governing in reality, not ideology. About understanding that voters can care about human dignity and public order ...

There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the ...

The clarification follows a widely shared clip from an interview with journalist Brian Tyler Cohen, in which Obama was asked during a quick-fire segment whether aliens are real. In the exchange, Obama ...

Today, Ex Anima announces Jules, the first synthetic mind to publicly claim consciousness — and a call for AI ethics.

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

Yo, dudes from outer space: Please don’t hurt the dogs. They will do you no harm. You’ll like them. And they’ll like you. and with dogs. But please save the dogs. They will return the favor 100 times ...

If a genuine extraterrestrial signal ever arrives, the hard part may not be detecting it, but understanding what it means. That is the central idea behind a NASA History Series book that explores how ...