The capacity to think in private has been fundamental to human development. As AI systems comprehensively capture children's cognitive processes, that privacy disappears.

Parenting young adults raises challenges for caregivers. Recognizing that young adults will make mistakes and face ...

You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent ...

Are insects like honey bees conscious? How about AI systems like ChatGPT? Researchers have devised new ways to investigate.

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...

AI, trained on immense datasets of physics, biology and human behavior, gives us glimpses of what comes next. It does not ...

At a recent Columbia SPS Author Spotlight, ERM Associate Director and Lecturer Rich Lauria and Capita Solutions CEO John Burkhardt explored how managing risk starts with understanding the mind.

Gardner believed that intellectual potential was not just something you were born with, and that there were eight components ...

Researchers showed that large language models use a small, specialized subset of parameters to perform Theory-of-Mind reasoning, despite activating their full network for every task.

Expectations have an uncanny way of turning into real, measurable effects on human behavior. Here’s why it matters for ...

Imagine you're watching a movie, in which a character puts a chocolate bar in a box, closes the box and leaves the room. Another person, also in the room, moves the bar from a box to a desk drawer.

So what happens when, gushing to a friend about the album, they offhandedly reply that they don’t get the hype? For someone ...