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AI as Sentient

AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

By Will Knight
AI Lab

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

By Will Knight
Book Excerpt

AI Will Never Be Conscious

By Michael Pollan
Extended Reasoning

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant

By Joel Khalili
Streaming Guides

The 8 Best Movies to Stream This Month

By Matt Kamen
Far Out

The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular

By Mattha Busby
Unauthorized Access

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed

By Reece Rogers
Navel Gazing

Lee Pace Has Big Hopes for Foundation’s Fourth Season

By Tim Marchman
Nesting Dolls

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

By Maxwell Zeff
Far Out

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

By Webb Wright
Model Behavior

Should AI Get Legal Rights?

By Kylie Robison
Uncanny Valley

Can Tech Get Rid of Bad Trips?

By Michael Calore, Boone Ashworth, and Manisha Krishnan
Brain Race

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs

By Emily Mullin
masc off

The GOP’s Attacks on James Talarico Are Straight Out of the Incel Handbook

By Miles Klee
Thought Experiment

Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

By Javier Carbajal
Snooze Setting

Halo Stops Bedtime Scrolling so You Can Go the F to Sleep

By Jill Duffy
Tiny Bubbles

People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year

By Ritsuko Kawai
DIY Drip

The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck

By Reece Rogers
RIP-O

Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO

By Paresh Dave
Apocaloptimist Now

The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

By Miles Klee
Model Behavior

Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

By Maxwell Zeff and Paresh Dave
Big Talk

Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos

By Aarian Marshall
Life Support

Former Neuralink Exec Launches Organ Preservation Effort

By Emily Mullin
Good Trip

Apple Pioneer Bill Atkinson Was a Secret Evangelist of the ‘God Molecule’

By Mattha Busby