During the test, ARTEMIS was allowed to operate on Stanford’s private and public computer science networks for 16 hours. In that time, the AI scanned nearly 8,000 devices, including servers and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...

Stanford's AI agent Artemis successfully identified security flaws missed by expert hackers. This AI agent took 16 hours to ...

Philip Zimbardo, creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment, died in October 2024. He is pictured here in 1994. Courtesy L.A. Cicero via Stanford University. Philip Zimbardo, a pioneering Stanford ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

“Most people go about their daily life assuming that they have more control over their behavior than they actually do,” wrote a young psychology professor at Stanford University in 1971. “We are often ...

After years of misfires, artificial-intelligence hacking tools have become dangerously good. So good that they are even surpassing some human hackers, according to a novel experiment conducted ...

Not long after Jerry Shue moved to Moab in 2005, he found himself substitute teaching a sociology class at Grand County High School. Hoping to make the class more engaging, he decided to share a ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, a Stanford University social psychologist whose aborted 1971 experiment, employing college students to play prison guards and inmates, became one of the most controversial episodes ...