Ai, art and forteana

Robert Hutton says many people fail to grasp the real nature of artificial intelligence

The technology-led US stockmarket has hit another record peak. There are rumours of stonking pay packages for software developers in Silicon Valley. One of the leading tech behemoths has just achieved

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling

The Manhattan Alien Abduction, a three-part documentary directed by Vivienne Perry and Daniel Vernon (available on Netflix), has brought an old abduction case back into the spotlight. Linda Napolitano

In physics, the search is ongoing for the ‘theory of everything’, an all-encompassing coherent framework that explains all aspects of the Universe. There is a similar concept in conspiracy theory – co