Episode 50 - Animal Testing This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. dissect the rapid dismantling of the animal-testing paradigm. We explore the legal and political shifts sweeping the EU and the Uni...

How money and power will work in the age of full automation

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Following a viral resignation, the backlash against AI safety was sudden and swift. Various signs suggest an industry push is supporting it.

Zhao Levi’s journey from an “Anti-AI Manifesto” to a proposed DSA working group opens a larger question: Can workers govern the machines that may one day make wage labor optional?

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Episode 49 - Targeting at Machine Speed This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J speak with Major Michael Brodka, a U.S. Army military intelligence officer and author of the July 2026 Military Review a...

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Medication produced benefits beyond what was achieved by calorie restriction alone.

Episode 48 - Black Mirror Nir and J discuss the show Black Mirror, the now archetypal tech dystopian cultural phenomenon. In almost every episode, technology is the villain. What rarely appears is a l...

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Episode 47 - Are Chatbots Conscious? A Conversation with Henry Shevlin Henry Shevlin, DeepMind's first in-house philosopher and associate director of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of In...

There’s a big gap between how progressive messaging is received by liberal, college-educated voters and working-class voters with no college degree. But there doesn’t have to be, if the Left appeals t...

A Conversation with James Hughes

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Are you a human? From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative.

Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.

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Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.

A new policy on gender medicine disregards mounting evidence against the practice.

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

Nicola Marino looks at a new paper proposing an evidence-based roadmap to make healthy longevity a measurable objective of public healthcare.

And how do voters think Medicare for All would be funded?

Most Americans support term limits, campaign spending caps, and Electoral College reform, but achieving these changes likely would require amending one of the world's hardest constitutions to change.

(RNS) — A new study found that, even among Gen Z Christians, the strong alliance between Trump and Christianity has had a negative impact on churchgoing for many.

The left’s answer is badly out of date.