Technology

The benefits of being polite to AI may include prompting better chatbot replies—and nurturing our humanity

The U.S. and China are collaborating less on projects across scientific disciplines amid a culture of fear in both countries

Companies and governments alike need to step up cybersecurity practices in the wake of massive technology failures associated with a CrowdStrike update

An issue with a commonly used security software called Crowdstrike shuttered large technology systems around the globe, including airlines, transit systems and stock exchanges

In the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics, the French government has authorized wide-reaching use of AI software in security surveillance feeds

Children at risk of dyslexia who played Space Invaders Extreme 2 showed improvement at a word-identification task

Astronauts still survive on freeze-dried meals. Could better food, aided by cooking gadgets designed to be used in microgravity, help them to thrive?

It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information

A new approach uses language models to interrogate other language models and sniff out lies

By learning exploits from adversarial AI, people could defeat a superhuman Go-playing system

As drones get less expensive and computer vision systems improve, rescuers are getting help from artificial eyes in the sky

I watched United Nations delegates debate AI-based weapons that can fire without human initiation. Humans cannot be taken out of that decision-making