The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even ...

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Quanta’s award-winning coverage of computational complexity, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, cryptography and more.

Janna Levin is the director of sciences and chair of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works. She is also the Claire Tow Professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University.

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

An Infinity of Infinities Yes, infinity comes in many sizes. In 1873, the German mathematician Georg Cantor shook math to the core when he discovered that the “real” numbers that fill the number line ...

The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.