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AI as Sentient

AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

By Will Knight
Backchannel

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

By Steven Levy
AI Lab

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

By Will Knight
Book Excerpt

AI Will Never Be Conscious

By Michael Pollan
Extended Reasoning

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant

By Joel Khalili
Brain Child

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

By Claire L. Evans
Unauthorized Access

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed

By Reece Rogers
Far Out

The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular

By Mattha Busby
AI Lab

I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas

By Will Knight
masc off

The GOP’s Attacks on James Talarico Are Straight Out of the Incel Handbook

By Miles Klee
Nesting Dolls

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

By Maxwell Zeff
Far Out

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

By Webb Wright
Snooze Setting

Halo Stops Bedtime Scrolling so You Can Go the F to Sleep

By Jill Duffy
Bloody Mess

The Gender War Over Obsession Has Come for Theme Parks

By Miles Klee
Chop Chop

I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots

By Reece Rogers
Navel Gazing

Lee Pace Has Big Hopes for Foundation’s Fourth Season

By Tim Marchman
Brain Race

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs

By Emily Mullin
Book Excerpt

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction

By Jill Lepore
Thought Experiment

Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

By Javier Carbajal
DIY Drip

The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck

By Reece Rogers
RIP-O

Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO

By Paresh Dave
Model Behavior

Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

By Maxwell Zeff and Paresh Dave
Uncanny Valley

Can Tech Get Rid of Bad Trips?

By Michael Calore, Boone Ashworth, and Manisha Krishnan
AI Do

People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them

By Jason Parham