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The Damage We’re Not Attending To

Scientists who study complex systems offer solutions to the pandemic.

Could an AI Be Immortal?

Data is under attack and uploads his brain. Does he survive?

June 10, 2020

Don’t Fear the Robot

I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world.

May 5, 2020

Superintelligent, Amoral, and Out of Control

AI is no longer playing games. Are we prepared?

April 22, 2020

Why I Built a Dumb Cell Phone with a Rotary Dial

You too can build a phone that feels good to use. Some soldering required.

March 18, 2020

Gaia Will Soon Belong to the Cyborgs

The father of the Gaia principle on the coming age of hyperintelligence.

March 4, 2020

The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

We’ve made an artificially panpsychic world, where technology and nature are one.

February 26, 2020

What Google Could Learn from a Fruit Fly

By tapping into life’s algorithms, scientists are finding elegant solutions to some of the hardest problems in computer science.

January 16, 2020

How to Predict Extreme Weather

Climate science is forging a more perfect union between humans and machines.

November 20, 2019

Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment

Today Google announced that it achieved “quantum supremacy.” Its chief quantum computing rival, IBM, said it hasn’t. The disagreement hinges on what the term really means.

October 24, 2019

Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready

Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling criminals to target anyone, anywhere, at scale.

October 21, 2019