Why societies fall apart isn’t politics or morals, an author argues—it’s cognitive failure, a pattern he says can be scientifically tested. Evil doesn’t take over societies by force or intelligence.

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America’s education system is in historic decline. According to the latest report card on 12th graders, students finishing high school have fewer skills and less knowledge in core academics than their ...

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After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of ...

Law firms will race to integrate workflows, embed AI agents and prepare for the heightened regulatory environment globally.

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Leading physicist Saul Perlmutter warns AI can create a false sense of confidence, urging skepticism and constant ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...

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