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 ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was nearly universal. While testing a new DNA sequencing technique, they examined a ...

Open enrollment for health insurance is fast approaching for people who get plans through their employers or the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Consumers may have to make financial trade-offs amid ...

Meta’s bringing Instagram’s “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content. Meta’s bringing Instagram’s “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank ...

The amount of time children in England spend on screens at school could be harming their "physical and developmental health", a group of more than 150 clinicians has warned. GPs, paediatricians and ...

Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa. This matters because genetic information is increasingly being used to ...