Research published in Personality and Individual Differences examined the relationship between self-esteem and workaholism, ...

A patient paused mid-thought in my Manhattan office the other day and apologized: “I know I’m saying this as a white guy.” ...

Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness, in which I argue that consciousness evolved to help animals navigate ...

What if a machine could truly understand itself? The idea seems pulled from the pages of science fiction, yet recent breakthroughs suggest we might be closer to this reality than we ever imagined. In ...

If you ask an LLM to explain its own reasoning process, it may well simply confabulate a plausible-sounding explanation for its actions based on text found in its training data. To get around this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recently posted research study ...

Anthropic is exploring whether AI models can experience “introspection,” or awareness of their own internal state, as a tool to better understand their functioning. Humans can not only think but also ...

AI models built on Anthropic’s most advanced systems are learning to reason, reflect on and express how they think -- but only about 20% of the time. In certain circumstances during tests, the models ...

When researchers at Anthropic injected the concept of "betrayal" into their Claude AI model's neural networks and asked if it noticed anything unusual, the system paused before responding: "I'm ...

Tommy Fleetwood meditated on meditation. Playing this week at the DP World Tour’s event in India, he’d been asked whether he still does yoga, and the popular pro said he’d unfortunately stopped. But ...