Milgram obedience experiment participants believed severe harm

Participants obeyed despite believing they caused harm

In the Milgram obedience experiment, ordinary American participants followed an authority figure’s orders even when they believed they were causing an innocent person severe suffering or apparent death.

Making AI more efficient may not reduce its total environmental cost

If AI needs less energy for each task, using it becomes cheaper. People may then use much more of it. The extra use can cancel some or all of the environmental savings from making each individual task more efficient.

Life deep underground can get energy from rock

2,400 m

Organisms found 2,400 meters below Earth's surface can survive without sunlight by using chemical reactions involving minerals such as pyrite. Deep underground, rock and its chemicals can provide the energy needed for an ecosystem.

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Milgram obedience experiment participants believed severe harm

Participants obeyed despite believing they caused harm

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