At the moment, you can say anything you want to your computer, use it for nefarious purposes or upgrade its operating system, and it won’t care. Enjoy that laissez-faire relationship while it lasts.

A software engineer on Google’s artificial intelligence team was suspended by the company earlier this month. His offense: Sharing confidential information that had led him to believe an AI he had ...

Like most conspiracy theories, what’s going on here is that the need to believe is triumphing over common sense. If you got to the Bing subreddit, you’ll see it’s heavily dominated by people who ...

A common trope in science fiction is “what if the computer comes to life?” The plot of “Free Guy” (2021) — a mediocre film — for example, revolved around a nonplayer character in a video game gaining ...

Following a Google engineer’s viral claims that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot “LaMDa” was sentient, Stanford experts have urged skepticism and open-mindedness while encouraging a rethinking of ...

If an AI program became sentient, would the law apply to AI just as it does to humans? NPR's A Martinez asks law professor Ifeoma Ajunwa to imagine the legal implications for sentient AI. Silicon ...

IT IS ONE of the oldest tropes in science fiction. On June 11th the Washington Post reported that an engineer at Google, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended from his job for arguing that the firm’s ...

We now have the technology for documents and digital content to develop levels of interactive responsiveness and competence that will make them appear super-intelligent. The question now becomes, how ...

Leon Gordon is a leader in data analytics, a current Microsoft MVP based in the UK and a partner at Pomerol Partners. Sentience is the ability to feel and perceive self, others and the world. It can ...