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Current AI is not conscious

Is today’s AI conscious? Philosopher Ned Block says no, and he’s not alone in finding the question harder than it looks. In this Mini Philosophy live conversation, Block, Silver Professor of Philosoph

Journal bigthink.com 15.10.2026

Can math stay human in the age of AI?

As AI churns out mathematical proofs, a DeepMind study raises a bigger question: What do we lose when we focus only on the answers?

Journal sciencenews.org 14.10.2026

The Third Circuit finds that AI companies can’t use material with an original “creative spark.”

Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Islands, upheld and further underlined a lower court ruling in

Journal lithub.com 08.10.2026

Portraits of another life: Nemo Gould

Driven by childhood curiosity, a sculptor turns discarded objects into kinetic artworks that are the antidote to AI slop- Video by Portraits of Another LifeWatch on Psyche

Journal psyche.co 19.10.2026

The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Dou

Journal technologyreview.com 05.10.2026

We Banned the Soul from the Building: On AI, Spiritual Life, and Sustainable Practices for Writing

The literary world is finally asking a question it has dodged for years: What can a human writer do that artificial intelligence cannot? The answers tend to circle around technical and personal aspect

Journal lithub.com 05.10.2026

Made in Our Image

In the output of AI, we see ourselves refracted through a strange new form of intelligence. This issue is an attempt to make sense of those refractions.

Journal bigthink.com 21.10.2026

AI could turn scientific papers into research assistants

An AI ‘virtual author’ can help scientists use a paper’s methods on new data. But it’s not going to match a human author’s expertise.

Journal sciencenews.org 21.10.2026

AI hasn’t taken my writing job — but it is living rent-free in my head

When a growing chorus of readers and critics accused Jamir Nazir, winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize, of using AI to write his winning entry, I did what any writer with a healthy

Journal bigthink.com 21.10.2026

See the Scientific and the Mundane Become Surprisingly Dazzling When Viewed Through a Microscope, From Neurons to Ballpoint Pens

The Nikon Small World Competition has announced its photography winners for its 52nd annual contest. This comes weeks after its video winner was dethroned for use of generative A.I.

Journal smithsonianmag.com 21.10.2026

Lit Hub Daily: October 21, 2026

American classrooms are racially segregated, and AI is only making it worse. | Lit Hub Politics Nina Chayka searches for the rarest Nabokov paperbacks in America: “Ardis lives on less through its corp

Journal lithub.com 21.10.2026

The idea of a “permanent underclass” started as a meme. It’s tapping real anxieties in Silicon Valley.

A rationalist blog forum popular in the Bay Area, LessWrong is known for its sprawling, hyper-logical takes on everything from AI research to optimal reproductive strategies. But during the 2025 holid

Journal bigthink.com 21.10.2026

The new economics of enterprise AI

Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity become

Journal technologyreview.com 20.10.2026

A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub

Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massi

Journal technologyreview.com 20.10.2026

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two

Journal technologyreview.com 19.10.2026

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment remini

Journal technologyreview.com 19.10.2026

Lit Hub Weekly: October 12 – 16, 2026

Is it or isn’t it? James Folta considers how generative AI is poisoning the literary well for everyone. | Lit Hub Technology “The embodied realm is eager for inquiry, if one is willing and interested.

Journal lithub.com 17.10.2026

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose

Journal technologyreview.com 16.10.2026

He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be

Journal quantamagazine.org 16.10.2026

Protected: How Do We Know? AI and I read “I felt a Funeral – in my Brain,” by Emily Dickinson (Part II)

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Journal guernicamag.com 15.10.2026