“I’ve been interested in the topic of free will for a while,” Frank Martela tells me. Martela is a philosopher and researcher of psychology at Aalto University, in Finland. His work revolves around ...

AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says a philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela.

Imagine standing at a crossroads. You pause, thinking you’re about to make a choice — left or right, stay or go, yes or no. It feels deliberate, conscious, yours. But what if that moment of decision ...

In his new book, The Science of Free Will, Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at The University of Queensland, discusses three studies that asked college students and adults what they think it ...

AI is advancing at a rapid speed. This has led some researchers to worry, drawing upon speculative moral questions, about the future position of machines in relation to humanity. According to ...

Does quantum physics place limits on the extent to which we have free will? This long-debated question stems from the way different physicists interpret the mathematics of quantum theory, but now ...