Why political conversations feel impossible, how psychology and platform design shape what we believe, and what can be done about it.

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NASA is testing how far humans can be pushed before a real mission to Mars becomes possible. This experiment places six people in extreme isolation for a full year to reveal the psychological and ...

AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people ...

CEO of Anthropic posted a lengthy essay on the woes of AI. This included AI brainwashing and AI that becomes psychotic. I ...

Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT can quickly absorb and reflect authoritarian ideas, according to a new report ...

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From building resilience to boosting artistic creativity, there are unexpected benefits to being rebuffed ...

Self-control has long been touted as a key factor of well-being and success, but it might not be enough for tackling the ...

Abstract ideas rarely fail because they are false; they fail because they are hard to grasp. Across history, deep thinkers ...

Generative deep learning models are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can create texts, images, audio files, and ...

We build AI systems to mimic the human brain: writing emails, answering questions and predicting what comes next. But new research aims to turn that relationship around—using large language models ...