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One of the main reasons I recommend rationalism for everyone is that humans are really, really suggestible. Once strong emotions are engaged...

Today I'd like to look at two articles that are especially interesting in juxtaposition. The first is about a study out of the Universit...

A couple of years ago, I posted a frustrated screed about the potential for AI-generated slop to supplant actual creativity.  My anger at t...

I've spent a lot of time here at Skeptophilia  in the last five years warning about the (many) dangers of artificial intelligence. At th...

If you needed further evidence that the aliens who are running the simulation we're all trapped in have gotten drunk and/or stoned, and ...

A recent study found that regardless how thoroughly AI-powered chatbots are trained with real, sensible text, they still have a hard time r...