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Voice assistants, social robots, and chatbots are now engineered to mimic empathy and warmth. Research shows that users ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to greatly shape twenty-first century prosperity and security—but only if it can be trusted. The ...

Several new reports look at the hyper-competitive agentic AI space. All suggest that decision-makers need to wake up and sup ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.