The physicist Antony Valentini recently argued in IAI News that quantum mechanics is a straightforward—though incomplete—description of material reality. Today, philosopher and former Director of ...

Some suspect that AI could lead to mass social upheaval, akin to the Luddite riots in response to nineteenth-century automation. However, given that AI supports some jobs whilst undermining others, it ...

We often assume that our memories are stored in our brains, just like a hard drive stores data. However, philosopher of time Victoria Trumbull argues this is a radical mistake. Drawing on the ...

With the release of his first book directly taking on philosophy, On the Equality of All Things, physicist Carlo Rovelli takes aim at analytic philosophy's return to realism. He argues that much of ...

Artificial intelligence is getting increasingly good at solving mathematical problems. A few days ago, OpenAI reported that one of its models had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven ...

Chinese philosopher Tongdong Bai recently argued in IAI News that democracy and liberalism are fundamentally at odds. Electoral majorities often support illiberal policies, and this, he thinks, will ...

Intelligence is often measured by facts known and judgments made. Schools reward memorization, work requires discernment, while AI now reduces intelligence to calculation. But intelligence is more ...

After a Nature paper provided possible indications of past life on Mars, neuroscientist and philosopher Erik Hoel makes the case that Mars could act as a planetary museum for life’s origins. For ...

Roger Penrose argued that human thought does things no computer can, so the mind must make use of non-computable quantum mechanics. The idea remains fringe. Most scientists think that in warm, wet ...

We often see democracy and liberalism as natural partners. But Chinese philosopher Tongdong Bai argues that they are in tension because, as John Stuart Mill foresaw, democracy threatens liberalism’s ...

Every scientific experiment requires an observer; every measurement is made by one. But the observer itself remains elusive. Andrew T. Jaffe uses the example of a scientist within a dream who can ...

Central to the West has been the allegiance of the US and Europe. But Trump's December 2025 Strategic Review outlined a very different world order in which the US is not necessarily allied to Europe ...