AI systems more intelligent than humans in some ways already exist – but general-purpose superhuman intelligence is probably still a long way off.

AI systems mass-producing cheap research would be bad news for an already struggling scientific ecosystem.

For decades, woman ‘computers’ worked behind the scenes while their male counterparts received recognition. The AI industry must not be an example of history repeating itself.

The Turing test, first proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing, was framed as a test that could supposedly tell us whether an AI system could ‘think’ like a human.

The science of human consciousness offers new ways of gauging machine minds – and suggests there’s no obvious reason computers can’t develop awareness.