Alison Snyder

“The real problem is that we view AI systems as similar to humans.”

A new book from a gaming exec argues that gaming can lead the way in testing AI’s real-world impacts.

Countries are debating and deploying new rules and tools to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits of increasingly global scientific research.

The decades between 40 and 60 years old could be a key time for early interventions.

There are disagreements over IP protections and how much vaccine or drugs pharma would have to share at reduced or no cost.

Some AI researchers think “embodied cognition” is a necessary ingredient to achieve advanced AI.

New report spotlights U.S. dependence on talent from overseas, particularly at advanced levels.

As countries grow their presence on Antarctica, a wider range of politics and goals is intersecting with science.

The fish sensing system works like radar or sonar.

But a large gap remains between the share of inventions involving men and those that include women inventors

A group of marine mollusks evolved two different ways to see — a seemingly unrelated body feature seems to set a species’ visual trajectory.

Patent data is a key indicator of science and technology prowess.

The moonshot is to electrify large planes that can fly hundreds of people thousands of miles.

Their larynx has an unusual anatomy.

If any such moonshot is successful and scaleable, it could help curb carbon emissions from heavy-duty transportation.

The industry is discovering new ways to standardize the production of the novel machines.

Most models that power today’s generative AI tools are trained on data in English and Chinese, leaving a massive gap of thousands of languages.

Congressional efforts to restrict Chinese biotech could disrupt relationships and supply chains U.S. companies rely on.

And a glimpse of how shifting geopolitics on the ground may play out in space.

“Maybe you have habitability conditions in many, many, many other objects in the solar system.”