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Luciano Floridi, director of Yale’s new Digital Ethics Center, describes his approach to creating ethical frameworks for AI and other new technologies.

In response to the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools in recent months, Northwestern’s Cognitive Science Program hosted an online panel discussion on the effects of Large Language Models on politics and civic engagement Tuesday. The multidisciplinary panel featured scholars with expertise spanning political science, philosophy and computer science. University of Massachusetts-Lowell political science...

Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences welcomes 61 new members whose scholarship spans academic disciplines.

New research published today in Science is a first-of-its-kind step toward a unified theory of the lexicon and the mind examined across timescales. Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the historical evolution of the world’s languages share a common cognitive foundation—a core knowledge base where patterns of children’s language innovat...

Arielle Baskin-Sommers, an associate professor of psychology, has been appointed the next Head of Silliman College, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced.

For as long as we have been aware of our own mortality, human beings have sought to extend our life, with the grand prize being to live forever. Through the ages there have been medical breakthroughs quests to find elixirs of immortality, all manner of strange treatments and rituals, and there seems to be nothing

A. Elizabeth "Betsy" Arnold, professor of plant sciences; Carol Gregorio, professor and head of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine; and Cecile McKee, professor of linguistics, are the newest fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Richard Huskey’s profile on The Conversation

The ability to recognize familiar faces is fundamental to social interaction. This process provides visual information and activates social and personal knowledge about a person who is familiar.

According to a new study, distinct information about familiar faces is encoded in a neural code that is shared across brains.