An excerpt from author and structural engineer Brian Potter's forthcoming book, "The Origins of Efficiency."

Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.

Our next AI breakthrough will come when we unlock a dataset we’ve either overlooked or never fully harnessed.

Einstein blamed automation for the widespread unemployment of the Great Depression, but his reasoning was based on a false premise.

Freethink talks to the creator of the world's most popular AI coding assistant to find out whether learning to code is still worthwhile.

Peter Leyden sums up the key themes and big ideas of his new series at a Freethink Conversation in San Francisco.

The impact of AGI on the economy will be big, it’ll happen fast, and it’ll be disruptive. Here's how the disruption could play out.

Decades before states started banning lab-grown meat, manufactured ice was the "unnatural" alternative under attack.

Innovators in every industry and field should adopt the same mantra: If you could start fresh with AI, then what would you do?

The main objective of consensus statements appears to be to reduce doubt, which may stifle scientific inquiry.

The tech community came together for the launch of the Great Progression event series, curated by Peter Leyden and produced by Freethink.

In "Raising AI," author De Kai argues that AIs are more like society's children than machines under our control.

Sam Altman’s World Network uses iris-scanning Orbs to give people a way to prove that they are people — and not AIs — online.

Mistakes made by the US government 100 years ago could help us determine the best way to regulate AI-manipulated images and videos today.

A secret prototype, a hardware deal with Jony Ive, and millions of AI images suggest OpenAI is making a play for your social media feed.

Despite outperforming humans at many tasks, multimodal LLMs struggle to read time on a clock — just like many people with dyslexia.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman join forces as OpenAI acquires io, Ive’s secretive AI hardware startup, for $6.5 billion.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman join forces as OpenAI acquires io, Ive’s secretive AI hardware startup, for $6.5 billion.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman join forces as OpenAI acquires io, Ive’s secretive AI hardware startup, for $6.5 billion.