3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some researchers suggest it could even be alien-made, drawing comparisons to probes ...

Let's pretend that you want to figure out why alien civilizations have not yet made contact with our little island Earth, a concept called the Fermi paradox. One possibility is that they're out there, ...

Perhaps no movie was primed to be a video game more than Aliens. A bunch of marines with guns up against hordes of monstrous beasties? That’s a video game, baby. That was true for the first Aliens: ...

Jacob Coxon, the researcher who resigned from Anthropic last week, ended his now-famous tweet thread by asking his former colleagues whether they really want to train a superintelligent AI “without a ...

AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week, warning the industry is gambling with our lives, writing of both OpenAI and Anthropic: "Neither company is acting responsibly. The people ...

Chinese robotics startup JoyIn says OpenAI copied its ideas on recursive self-improvement and the design of its website. Its chief executive set out the claims in an open letter as JoyIn launched ...

There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. Artificial intelligence labs are on the verge of handing over the training of A.I. to A.I. We should stop them. There’s a chasm right now between ...

The US government has been sharing more information about UFOs. That's fueling excitement over the possibility of the president announcing that humans are not alone. Twenty years later, the former is ...

Microscopic bits of alien tech on the moon? As scientists searched for intelligent extraterrestrial life — i.e., aliens — they’ve focused on a short list of standard possibilities. In other words, ...