Artificial Intelligence

Using AI chatbots for “therapy” is dangerous, mental health experts say. Here’s why

An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving long-standing counterexamples and hinting at tools for forecasting stock crashes, diseases and climate disasters

AI models supposedly did well on International Math Olympiad problems, but how they got their answers reminds us why we still need people doing math

Kids crave approval from their peers. Chatbots offer an alternative to IRL relationships, but they can come at a price

A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot raises questions about how AI talks about awareness.

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution

My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how they could irreparably harm both Hawaii and the rest of the U.S.

A SkyWest pilot’s last-second decision could have prevented a collision that air-traffic controllers may not have foreseen

Discover why some puzzles stump supersmart AIs but are easy for humans, what this reveals about the quest for true artificial general intelligence—and why video games are the next frontier

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

The Trump administration wants to reduce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget by $2.2 billion, eliminating research that might help advance AI weather models

This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger everything from cancer to rare genetic disorders—and potentially revolutionizing personalized medicine