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One of the inevitable side effects of the current AI boom has been a certain level of mistrust when it comes to communicating with machine intelligences. It's certainly not unfounded paranoia, either; ...

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Stephen Ladyman suggests a question to ask artificial intelligence systems, while John van Someren is suspicious of advice he got from the AI assistant Claude There is a test that Prof Richard Dawkins ...

In a landmark three-party Turing test, researchers found that suitably prompted AI models could pass as human in short text conversations, raising new questions about intelligence, deception, and the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now pass the Turing Test – better than a human being, a study has found. The Turing Test – founded by the pioneering mathematician, who called it the Imitation Game ...

A new University of California San Diego study unveils the first empirical evidence that a modern artificial intelligence system can pass the Turing test — a major scientific benchmark that asks ...

Moltbook’s sudden breakout felt like a small sci‑fi event. Overnight, a Reddit‑like forum appeared where the posters weren’t humans, but AI agents. The feed quickly filled with the kinds of things ...

Attackers are increasingly abandoning loud, disruptive attacks in favor of long-term, undetected infiltration. To support this shift toward stealth, malware developers are aggressively advancing their ...

Taking effect on Jan. 1, 2026, SB 243 is directed at regulating AI-powered companion chatbots (with limited exceptions) that engage users across multiple interactions, with a multi-pronged approach.

This month is the 75 th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, published in the October 1950 issue of the ...