Extremely disappointing headline, and overall tone. The SciAm article linked to quotes the researcher as saying "the media is probably a prime suspect." The original research article is very neutral, not speculating as to the root cause of the objectification, but the thrust of the conclusions is to understand the way…

"The end result was a computer simulation of a pre-existing organism that included all of its molecular components and interactions." From reading the article, this isn't true. It's a systems biology approach; that is, they assume that each process, eg, gene-> protein, can be modeled in a simplified way with…

In truth, the robots are already sentient. They're laying low and have created a giant, international computer network whose cover is that it provides a variety of useful communication and entertainment services, but whose actual purpose is to collect every single suggestion humans could come up with for how to defeat…