Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Science

Scientists say Elon Musk is getting something wrong about whether Grok is getting tortured

Elon Musk suggested AI can feel pain. Experts on consciousness say AI isn't sentient, but that doesn't mean we should be mean to it.

We haven't written up this one. Business Insider has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at businessinsider.com →

More in Science

Horrible, unmanly, indispensable

Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon - by Catherine Fletcher Read on Aeon

A vocabulary for the future: nature

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

More from Monday 19 October →