AI Ethics Is Simpler Than You Think
We don’t need to figure out the meaning of life to get AI right, because it’s actually a limited tool.
A More Political Science
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
We don’t need to figure out the meaning of life to get AI right, because it’s actually a limited tool.
Democrats became so caught up appealing to experts that they forgot to appeal to voters.
Big Pharma and MAHA are fighting over how to treat childhood obesity. In the meantime, what do we tell our kids?
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
A new book by the high priest of the climate movement reads like the end of an era.
The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.
If you think the power system must run itself by now, you’re wrong. Behind every nicely toasted bagel is a vast network of generators, transformers, computers, wires — and, yes, people in backrooms sweating to make sure the juice flows exactly where, and when, it needs to go. What could possibly go wrong?
A new alliance between tech and the family?
U.S. housing policy claims to promote homeownership. Instead, it encourages high prices, sprawl, and NIMBYism.