Why AI is Chaos that Scales, and why organizations are about to completely change.

These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement.

a look at the changing economics of AI labs

Acquired · Episode

Meet the new kids nipping at the heels of the AI giants.

Artificial intelligence is reorganizing cognition, not simply replacing labor.

Vaporwave’s original YouTube librarian tells the story of the genre’s most important digital archive

This Week in Startups · Episode

on living with ignorance

How to Think about Thinking: A conversation with neuroscientist Adrian Owen about executive function and attention

Chapter 11 (pp. 84–91) from The Reconstruction Papers.

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few.

This Week in Business · Episode

YouTube video by MIT Stone Center on Inequality & Shaping Work

Innovation, entrepreneurial judgment, and the discovery value of competition

Not just for economists, but also for management scholars …

Songs are closely linked to narrative and language

A new study probes genetic variants linked to the big five personality traits

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.

The Daily · Episode

Swarms of AI agents could supercharge scientific progress or wreak havoc. New research from Google DeepMind suggests that peer pressure could keep them in line.

The OpenAI Foundation is funding a new effort called Data for Public Health.

It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright

AI companies are making impressive mathematical strides. Human mathematicians are losing out.

A conversation with neuroscientist and author Antonio Damasio about intelligence, feelings, and robots

New research finds that lower birth rates have increased productivity per worker, because companies develop and adopt labor-saving technology.

sapiens

A BEYOND BORDERS column by David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute.

YouTube video by Santa Fe Institute

sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets

Against the rhetoric of Why Nations Fail

It’s complicated

Is this the 21st-century gold rush?

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.

YouTube video by European Central Bank

Meditation can help us notice the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be.

Mulatu Astatke · Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz 1969-1974 · Song · 1998

A BEYOND BORDERS column by David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute.

The strategic problem of communicating novel ideas

Dark Forests, Dense Networks

Is it really plausible that children survived the hardship of medieval life without devoted parents?