A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Modern movie culture would have you believe artificial intelligence is out to kill us all. In "2001: A Space Odyssey," Hal, the AI computer aboard a space flight to Jupiter, ...

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A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines". Seti, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has until now sought radio signals ...

Scientists working on SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, have turned a student project into a powerful AI-based tool for spotting radio signals that could have been generated by an ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episodes 1 & 2. The Alien franchise has always been focused on the race for immortality, and Noah Hawley's perfect organism, the FX original ...

The Olympics never fails to inspire the world by demonstrating the highest levels of physical prowess by human beings. But last month, the highest levels of technological prowess by human beings was ...

In such a world, the greatest danger is not that AI becomes alien. The danger is that humans start behaving less humanly by outsourcing thinking, surrendering responsibility, and hiding behind the ...

After over 15 years, director Steven Spielberg is finally getting back into the world of alien invaders. Sure, as a producer, ...

Insiders have revealed details of a new Alien universe game: survival horror, advanced AI, xenomorphs, Eidos Montreal, and a release in 2028.