A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals.

AI chatbot makers’ restrictive use policies hinder people’s access to information.

Their victory in the European Court of Human Rights is a huge win for the climate.

Researchers create a curious machine-learning model that finds a wider variety of prompts for training a chatbot to avoid hateful or harmful output.

Pesticides present in pet flea and tick treatments pose a risk to human health and the environment - but monthly application as a preventative measure isn’t essential.

A new book, The Exhausted Earth, outlines how capitalism leads to burnout - for people and planet. But regenerative solutions are possible if people focus on interconnectedness, not isolation.

A new method to measure homophily in large group interactions offers insights into how groups might interact in the future.

The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.

Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.