David Ryan Polgar is the founder and president of the nonprofit All Tech Is Human, which works with Silicon Valley companies ...

Consciousness may arise in systems far different than the biology on Earth we are used to, according to University of California, Riverside (UCR) researchers, who argue that many forms of conscious ...

What is intelligence? We can all agree that humans are intelligent and many of us would likely extend that definition to the most mentally adept creatures of the animal kingdom—from dolphins to ...

If humanity ever makes contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization, we will have no shortage of questions.

There is an arrogance to assuming that if conscious, sentient beings exist somewhere else in the universe, they’d probably look a lot like us. According to a new paper by philosophers Eric ...

A lot of folks, human and otherwise, seem very interested in getting their hands on the newly crash-landed alien specimens. What could go wrong? By Sean T. Collins The “Alien” franchise explores two ...

At the mid-point of Alien: Earth 's first episode, the show's protagonist — an android uploaded with the consciousness of a dying child — shakily asks, "If I'm not human, what am I?" By the episode’s ...