Identity and the alias nation.

But they still pose risks.

But they still pose risks.

But they still pose risks.

But they still pose risks.

But they still pose risks.

But they still pose risks.

But they still pose risks.

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

We keep marveling at how fast the years go by. The deeper problem is that we’re forgetting them — and losing the quiet, boring moments where memory forms.

Ten deep dives into the fundamental questions that AI poses.

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy.

The most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust.

Slogans won’t slow the rapid development of dangerously powerful AI. But a citizens’ assembly representative of humanity’s diversity and independent of frontier labs and national governments could.

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

Embryonic gene editing tightens the feedback loop between cultural and biological evolution. The species-level effects remain unclear, but some families are already buying a potential genetic…

Strategic air power, even AI-aided, failed yet again in the war on Iran.

Can an AI incite a person to violence? If it can and does, who should be held accountable?

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

Slogans won’t slow the rapid development of dangerously powerful AI. But a citizens’ assembly representative of humanity’s diversity and independent of frontier labs and national governments could.

Open societies are at a disadvantage.

For humanity’s fight against climate change to gain real momentum, we need to find the selfless courage that comes when our time is inevitably nigh.

Can we imagine a future where synthetic AI worlds shape ours?

Color once taught us to see and value our planet. It now records how we are altering it.

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy.

Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy.

The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.

The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.

“Pace the frontier” or pull the plug?

How the collapse of political belonging is reshaping democracy.

By any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or religion, AI is alive.