In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

Your brain might have a hidden neural layer that puts you in touch with the same “figures” during altered states of ...

The hive mind doesn’t quite fit in the same category of horror as slashers or monsters, but it is its own impressive breed of terror. It’s been a feature of science fiction and horror for decades, ...

On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

If you’ve been watching Pluribus on Apple TV, you probably have questions. Lots of them. How does the Joining actually function? Why can Carol hurt the collective with her emotions? What are the rules ...

In a deep and wide-ranging conversation, Elon Musk warns that modern social media has turned into a stream of "dopamine hits" that creates "a little bit of brain rot." He says endless, substance-less ...

Pluribus has finally arrived. The first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s heady new science fiction show (his follow-up to the Breaking Bad franchise he’s devoted the last two decades of his life to) ...

Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka in Pluribus / Courtesy of Apple TV+ Pluribus has somehow found a way to make the apocalypse look oddly appealing, while simultaneously presenting world peace as something ...