Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

Everyone’s worried about falling birth rates. Almost no one is talking about the other lever that could reshape our demographic future: longevity.

A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid; even small increases could make a big difference.

South Korea is undergoing one of the world’s most rapid demographic transitions. Fertility rates — the number of children a woman has over her lifetime — have fallen rapidly over the last 50 years, an...

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Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, many people have left the country. By 2020, around 8.5 millions had emigrated, representing nearly half (48%) of all people born in the country.

Introducing our new alignment strategy for o1 models, which are directly taught safety specifications and how to reason over them.

A collection of projects, essays and thoughts

Nature: Keller Scholl got out of quarantine 13 days ago, and he’s still not feeling 100%. The itchiness — far and away the worst symptom, he says — is mostly gone, and now the graduate student just fe...