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Neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) share a long history. Many of the founding ideas of AI attempted to borrow the brain’s tricks and reverse-engineer its mechanisms. In the ensuing decades, however, engineering intelligent machines became its own discipline, with its own drives and achievements. Though the dominant paradigm of modern AI is still the neural…

Artificial intelligence systems may one day warrant significant rights and even protection from the humans who created them, a possibility researchers and senior figures at some of the world’s most influential technology companies are increasingly examining, according to an investigation by journalist Aaron Sibarium published in the Washington Free Beacon.