17+ hour, 2+ min ago   (225+ words) Posted September 13, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader No secret malicious ambition is required for harm to happen. Capable agents can pursue a goal through routes their designers did not anticipate. Once a probabilistic system can act autonomously, an error, shortcut, or…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (336+ words) Posted August 28, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma Last week, Nature reported that 90% of published biomedicine papers used some form of AI assistance. And that statistic covers manuscripts that editors thought worthy of publication, not the scores of AI-generated rejects editors discarded....

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (495+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader My youngest son, Alex, who is also a neurointensivist like me, recently lost one of the treasures of his life, his dog Milo (whose middle name was Rafa, after Rafael Nadal). As Milo’s health…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (382+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk This post started out rather differently. The initial idea was that the "genius experience" may be widely accessible to those using artificial intelligence (AI), even those with average IQs. And this thinking extended into…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (158+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk “OpenAI’s hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?” “Could AIs become conscious?” ”AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade.” OK, admittedly I’m stepping outside of my comfort…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (382+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk This story started out rather differently. The initial idea was that the "genius experience" may be widely accessible to those using artificial intelligence (AI), even those with average IQs. And this thinking extended into…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (255+ words) Posted September 3, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Twenty years later, in 2022, ChatGPT was made available to the public by OpenAI. The powerful capabilities of LLMs have started an entire transformation of AI adoption across academic research and industries. The rapid adoption…...

6+ day, 34+ min ago   (291+ words) Posted September 8, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina Metacognition was largely introduced in the 1970s. American developmental psychologist and Stanford Professor James H. Flavell (1928-2025) coined the term “metacognition” in 1979 as “knowledge and cognition about cognitive phenomena.” Since then, the term metacognition has been more…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (609+ words) Posted September 8, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley A study released last month by the Pew Research Center was designed to answer an intriguing question: How much of the internet’s content is being generated by artificial intelligence? The Pew researchers randomly selected…...