Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...

"Mathematics is not a game of chess," one Fields Medal winner told CNET. Mathematicians worry AI companies are just trying to win. Artificial intelligence has profoundly shaken up tech, education, ...

For a long time, it was a truism in science that the human brain is born with all of the neurons it will ever have. But truisms can crumble, and this one is looking shaky. The brain struggles to make ...

Two scientists who solved the mystery of why some chemical reactions create molecules that are just one of two possible mirror-image variants have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Henri Kagan ...