The Pentagon had kept trying to leave itself little escape hatches in the agreements that it proposed to Anthropic. It would ...

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Disclosing government documents about UFOs won't mean much without hard physical evidence for alien spaceships or alien bodies.

Is humanity at a crossroads, potentially in the crosshairs of malign AI? We may not know, but best not to ignore the possibilities.

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Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

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From its earliest days, Star Trek was never just about starships and strange new worlds. Beneath the optimism of a better future and adventure was a recurring anxiety about power—specifically, what ...

Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,’ Obama said, as he explained his theory ...