Perhaps the most exceptional mind to think about thinking machines before 1956 was the British mathematician Alan Turing.

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The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

Squaring — multiplying a number by itself — seems harmless, but repeat it long enough and it becomes a mathematical explosion ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Meet Becca Bloom, TikTok’s Marie Antoinette and a USC alum. She landed a spot among the TIME100 Creators in 2025 for ...

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

If we do not find common ground, then the ground of being on which we depend will dissolve.

Conventional wisdom is a byproduct of groupthink that presents solutions good enough for the average person while ...

On her stunning new album The BPM, the multi-instrumentalist Sudan Archives explores the freedom of augmented reality and ...