AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence

Intelligence Rising

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to be one of the most transformative technologies in human history. 

AI for science: What can it do? Can it do things? Let’s find out!

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Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion

For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike intelligence, consolidating all cognition into a cold silicon point. But this vision is almost certainly wrong in its most fundamental assumption. If AI development follows the path of previous major evolutionary transitions or “intelligence explosions,” our current step-change in computational intelligence will be plural, social, and deeply entangled with its forebears (us!).

Deep Research, information vs. insight, and the nature of science

What AI will accelerate in the scientific process, what it cannot do, and how we can prepare for new manners of scientific investigation.

Human Intelligence, the Secret of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is mysterious: we speak to it and it seems to understand what we say. Proof that it understands is that it responds with text or speech that makes sense, and sometimes more …

AI is getting too advanced

A more interesting upside of AI

Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?

What AI is Really For - Christopher Butler

After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the

Are We Betting on the Wrong Kind of Intelligence?

AI optimizes for the world as it was. Rewilding could be what prepares us for the world as it is.

AI #169: New Knowledge

Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.

WDR 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence

The World Development Report 2026 explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping development as a general‑purpose technology.

AI, Learned Today

AI, Learned Today is a learning-in-public journal about how to use modern AI through my everyday use. It’s a place to share what I tried, what I noticed, and what I’m learning. Honest field notes from someone exploring the field of rapidly evolving AI tools.

Artificial Intelligence

Europe is transforming into the AI continent by fostering the development and uptake of new AI applications while ensuring that AI remains safe and respect EU values.

What Is Intelligence?

It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this ...