A growing number of AI labs have been hiring from a surprising pool of candidates: philosophers. NPR's Scott Detrow talks ...

Once again, random angry boors have been used to portray San Francisco as a hotbed of organized, political antisemitism ...

Famed philosopher Peter Singer turns 80 and rejects the claim that there are no ethical billionaires, pointing to expanding ...

It remains a problem America is failing to solve or even meaningfully address as the social and political consequences become ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

TEN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should “learn to code”. That may have been bad ...

Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI). Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, ...