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 ...

This story contains spoilers for "Alien: Romulus" and "Alien." Fans of the "Alien" franchise had a few concerns about the appearance of a beloved actor brought back to life by artificial intelligence.

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 ...

Decoding emergent languages in AI can have many benefits. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the 2016 science fiction movie ...

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy warns that programmers are struggling to keep pace with the rapid advancements in AI. He ...

Spielberg has long been known for his love of alien-related material. That's why he produced the abduction-based Taken ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Scientists searched 27 exoplanets for alien technology using planetary eclipses, revealing a new way SETI hunts signals ...

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, published by Oxford University Press in August 2025. John Gertz is the ...

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 ...