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Ted Chiang is perhaps the world’s most celebrated living science-fiction author. His short, carefully hewn stories explore how our inner worlds and our societies would react to unexpected rifts in the ...

As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Idiocracy—demanding innovation with safeguards and clear global engagement.

You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no humans are, unless you can hijack the site and roleplay as AI, as some appear to be doing.

My son and I went to see the movie Tron: Ares, this past week. I was excited to see this 2025 sequel, because the original Tron movie from 1982 is a classic and one of my ’80s sci-fi technology ...

The Associated Press You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no ...

In boardrooms and innovation hubs worldwide, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant promise, it’s a current reality. Once confined to R&D labs and science fiction, AI now touches nearly ...

Person of Interest offered more than entertainment—it foreshadowed today’s AI dilemmas of surveillance, control, and human judgment in an age of intelligent machines. “If you want to make something ...

Some classic science fiction movies made sweeping predictions for the future. In some cases, those predictions never came to pass, but in others, the movies were strikingly on point. Predictions about ...

By Stelios ColocassidesWhat began as a business tool, then an everyday convenience, is now starting to resemble something far more unsettling: a force that may soon decide outcomes that humans no ...