From using words to overthrowing regimes, shared awareness is necessary for people to coordinate. The cognitive scientist explains to Nature how it works. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: ...

How many times have you been asked by someone at work whether you know about a particular project, are familiar with a specific concept, or know a person? Chances are, you have answered “yes” to that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Settle is a seven time CIO and the author of two books on IT management. 66 million years ago an asteroid collided with the ...

One of the most, uh, formative movies for me as a teen was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. My favorite hysterical characters in the movie were all played by a single actor, John Cleese, who continues ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Leading in the AI Era,” available in the Chronicle Store. E arlier this year Ohio State University announced an AI Fluency program, ...

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We laugh at the same jokes (usually for the same reasons), blush at innuendo, bow to dictators (at least temporarily), all because of a sense of implicit understanding: ie, common knowledge. We ...

Have you ever wondered how ChatGPT seems to know everything? Sure, it sometimes gets things wrong. But other times, its knowledge can feel uncanny. Like it knows so much about you, the world, and ...