They have conjured dramatic scenarios, like AI-driven extinction of humans (and many other species), or our assimilation into human-AI cyborgs. The predictions are generally grim, pitting the fate of ...

If we turn back the clock to when Homo sapiens is believed to have evolved – around 300,000 years ago – we will find that there were a lot of other human ... them for resources when they ...

Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images The human brain is a biological marvel, stuffed with some 86 billion neurons tangling in ways that even scientists have not yet been able to fully map and ...