What happens when the most powerful tools humanity has ever created begin to outpace our ability to understand or control them? This is the unsettling reality we face with artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...

Two of the biggest questions associated with AI are “why does AI do what it does”? and “how does it do it?” Depending on the context in which the AI algorithm is used, those questions can be mere ...

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, language models stand as pillars of innovation, learning from vast datasets to understand and generate human-like text. These models, however, ...

Evan Hackstadt is a computer science major with minors in biology and math. He is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his ...