Month: December 2025

84 posts
AI psychosis

New AI personality test reveals chatbots can be programmed with ‘psychosis’

Researchers have developed the first scientifically validated framework to measure the “personality”…
Swearing.

You can swear by it: Turning the air blue makes you stronger, psychologists find

Unleashing a string of expletives might be the secret to hitting a…
Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. prescribed as ‘potent antidote’ for adults suffering burnout

Replaying familiar video games like Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi may help…
Gossiping AI chatbots.

‘Feral’ AI chatbots are spreading shame and destroying reputations

Artificial intelligence is evolving into a “feral” gossip machine capable of ruining…
Biological AI chips

New theory suggests AI may never be conscious without ‘biological’ chips

The debate over whether Artificial Intelligence can ever truly be conscious has…
Gun violence protests.

US politicians inhabit ‘parallel universes’ on X after mass shootings

Democratic congressmembers are more than three times as likely to post on…
Conscious AI and shrimps.

AI consciousness claims are ‘existentially toxic’ and unprovable

The only scientifically justifiable position on artificial intelligence is “agnosticism”, meaning humans…
Mice brains.

AI predicts unknown brain neurons that scientists then find in real mice

Artificial intelligence has successfully predicted the existence of previously unknown neuron types…
The robots appear black and silvery gray in the grayscale image, with tiny gray squares and rectangles on one side and plain gray on the back

World’s smallest programmable robots cost one penny and run for months

The world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have launched, able to sense…