When people debate highly contentious issues, they often misrepresent the other side’s arguments. A recent study tested ...

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; ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...

For over seven decades, the Turing test was considered the gold standard for artificial intelligence: can a machine convince ...

AI can pass the Turing Test in live chats, and the latest result lands with a chill. In a UC San Diego study, GPT-4.5 outperformed real participants at convincing judges there was a person on the ...

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 ...

Four cross-disciplinary faculty at UC San Diego believe the answer is yes Does AI already have human-level intelligence? Four UC San Diego faculty suggest the machine intelligence foreshadowed by Alan ...

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.

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What happens when machines sound more human than we do? In a newly published study, researchers from UC San Diego conducted a large-scale, randomized, and pre-registered evaluation of four AI systems ...