Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

Last Friday, onstage at a major AI summit in India, Sam Altman wanted to address what he called an “unfair” criticism. The ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in just a few years, when machines match or exceed human cognitive abilities ...

Habitat for Humanity is bringing a new concept in affordable homeownership to Papillion, and applications are now open for ...

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity set out to build a global “proof-of-humanity” network using a device called the Orb.

A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the “posthuman transition” — a mind-bending exercise in imagining a future in which humanity willfully hands over power, or perhaps ...

To be sure, AI can simulate empathy. It can generate phrases that sound reassuring. It can be trained on millions of examples of “supportive language.” But simulation is not the same as soul. A ...