A developer’s AI pain experiment produced distress-like responses and sparked ethical debate, but it does not establish that models consciously suffer.

The pursuit of scientific knowledge has driven humanity to remarkable achievements — cures for diseases, revolutionary technologies, and breakthroughs that have saved millions of lives. Yet this noble ...

Philip Zimbardo’s legendary 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most well-known, and notorious, research experiments in recent history. It has been the subject of countless books, TV ...

A scientific paper that claimed to reveal why a promising cancer drug can fail in lung cancer treatment has been retracted, after the journal’s editor determined that animal experiments in the study e ...

At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to uphold intellectual integrity and avoid preventable harms that may arise in the course of research or its communication. Benefits and harms of ...