Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills. Thinking ...

Among those thanked at the bottom of Dario’s essay was Nick Beckstead, who had presided over effective altruism’s first golden age as the head of Bankman-Fried’s FTX Foundation. Before Bankman-Fried ...

AI may have negative implications for cognition — a warning that clinicians in particular may need to heed, according to an ...

As conversations around AI use continue to grow, it can be challenging to stay informed about the impact it's having on ...

When the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not only had our nation become a haven for shady foreign money, but we were ...

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

Human oversight is only meaningful when the overseer understands the task. We can still do something to preserve our place in ...

New research shows just 10 minutes of AI use can measurably reduce brain independence and problem-solving ability. The post ...

Technology is doing two things simultaneously. It is concentrating power — in organisations, in economies, and in the hands of states. And it may be changing how people think. The first reduces the ...

In 1914, Sigmund Freud borrowed a figure from Ovid and handed psychology one of its most durable terms. In his essay On Narcissism, the myth of Narcissus, the youth who fell in love with his own ...

As millions share their deepest secrets with Claude and ChatGPT, Liam Murphy-Robledo goes back to the source – a 1966 experiment gone wrong. He speaks to the original ELIZA chatbot and discovers the v ...

Banning AI only drives it underground. By bringing it into the classroom, pupils from both rich and poor backgrounds can benefit.