As a graduate student who was on the verge of performing the last experiment for a paper, I lament the timing of COVID-19 – it could not have been more inconvenient. My lab’s research at the ...

A year and a half ago, as I was preparing to launch my own laboratory studying cognition at Columbia University in New York City, I kept returning to a particular concern: I would soon be responsible ...

On May 22, 2022, I began an experiment. I unplugged everything in my apartment, with the goal of drawing zero power from the electric grid for one month. I had no idea how I would make it past a few ...

While movies often show AI agents as sentient super computers that can perform various tasks, real-world AI agents differ greatly from this portrayal. “What we mean when we say AI is that we come up ...