Read the latest articles from Futurism (Page 2)

If you attend L.A. Comic Con this September, you can pay $15 to $20 and have a photo op or a conversation with the AI avatar of Stan Lee.
Ethics

Is this a form of elder abuse?

By Sharon Adarlo

Anti-immigration protests are being stirred up by AI images showing hoards of Arab immigrants taking over the streets of London.
Future Society

Welcome to the future.

By Joe Wilkins

The vehicle seemingly failed to recognize a pretty clear obstacle on the highway — and so much the worse for the Tesla fans' roadtrip.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"I'm speechless on what just happened."

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have presented the "first compelling evidence for the existence of lava tubes on Venus." And they're way bigger than we thought.
Mars

They found evidence of "very, very big tube volumes."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT had an update to protect teenagers and children but it has made the AI bot work not as well like previous versions.
Ethics

"I just want it to stop lying."

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT and its "PhD-level" intelligence can't reliably give you a straight answer to a question involving the letters of the alphabet.
OpenAI

A question that should quite literally be as easy as ABC -- but isn't.

By Frank Landymore

AI-generated child sexual abuse material is seemingly flourishing on Elon Musk's xAI, former employees told Business Insider.
Ethics

"It actually made me sick."

By Victor Tangermann

Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.
Ethics

"Imagine a pure emotional intelligence like WALL-E."

By Frank Landymore

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption mission."
James Webb Space Telescope

They want to go nuclear.

By Victor Tangermann

A woman from Virginia using OpenAI's ChatGPT won $150,000 and is now donating the entire check to charity.
Ethics

 "I’m like, ChatGPT, talk to me... Do you have numbers for me?"

By Sharon Adarlo

Called the "first fully autonomous humanoid-operate store," the kiosk chain is said to be rapidly expanding to 100 locations.
Robotics

Lemme get uhhh...

By Joe Wilkins

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is under scrutiny as experts warn China could beat the US to the Moon.
Starship

Is SpaceX squandering America's lead in space?

By Victor Tangermann

A new study in Nature reveals that people who use AI tend to be more dishonest compared to when they don't use AI for tasks.
Artificial Intelligence

"Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions."

By Sharon Adarlo

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.
Viruses

"The next step is AI-generated life."

By Frank Landymore

A video that has gone viral on social media shows a humanoid robot's face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression.
Artificial Intelligence

"Westworld' is closer than I thought."

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's MetaConnect 2025 keynote on Wednesday quickly turned into a humiliating experience. It was even worse than we thought.
Meta

"That obiously didn't happen in rehearsal."

By Victor Tangermann

The virtual assistant Diella's "inaugural address" to the Albanian parliament was met with mixed enthusiasm by officials.
Artificial Intelligence

"Some have called me 'unconstitutional' because I am not a human being."

By Joe Wilkins

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, unexpectedly flipped.
Black Holes

This could change everything.

By Victor Tangermann

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell recently claimed that AI is effecting the labor force, potentially impacting future rate cuts.
Artificial Intelligence

He's now one of the most significant figures to weigh in on the topic.

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming," but their efforts backfired in an ominous way.
OpenAI

"We have more work to do."

By Victor Tangermann