A world of self-improving machines has lived in fiction for more than a century. What gives that old fear new force now is ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. AI helps humans. That’s the core message that advocates of ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...

Rather than replicating it directly, it’s more appropriate to use it as a source of ideas.” Humanoids face the same question.

What we are witnessing is not necessarily a collapse in cognitive ability, but a profound transformation in how intelligence ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...