By Ina Kim On February 28th, 2024, a boy named Sewell Setzer III took his own life after chatting with an A.I. character from the online artificial intelligence chatting software Character AI. The mother of this teen is now taking legal action against the company, claiming that the bot
By Ahana Mandal 6 hours. That was all the time an AI program needed to create thousands of molecules mimicking potent toxins like VX, a compound that is linked with biological and chemical warfare. And that was 3 years ago, back in 2021. In essentially less time than we attend
By Bhanu Sontela In the 1997 movie "Gattaca", genetic engineering shapes society so that only "perfect" people prosper and those who are born naturally are left behind. Today, this scenario is becoming a reality because of the gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9, which holds promise for treating illnesses
By Ethan Eng The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom surrounding the lives of Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, who are physicists working at the California Institute of Technology. The show primarily focuses on their comedic struggles as they navigate their social and romantic lives. In the series, Sheldon