Success in this means that the stage is being set for our capacity to resolve the Enlightenment Gap. This will enable us to start moving toward a second Enlightenment that gives rise to a scientific ...

“We understand that people are anxious about how (AI) can change the way we live,” said OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman in a 2023 Senate subcommittee hearing. “We are, too. If this technology goes wrong, it ...

This question of what it means to be human seems almost laughably impossible at first glance because there are as many ways to find particular meaning as there are individuals. But while researching ...

Nearly 20 years ago, I held my father’s hand as I made the decision to take him off life support. No algorithm could guide that moment. No dashboard could absorb its cost. The question wasn’t “Can we?

Rohit Patel, Founder & CEO of QuickAI and director in Meta Superintelligence Labs. He works on reinforcement learning, agents, and evals. As the AI community focuses on reasoning models, the ones that ...

For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and consumer-facing startups. Gene editing, once confined to rare diseases and lab ...

What Makes Us Human? is a biweekly column from Emi Sakamoto ’28. Sakamoto investigates the question to better understand human-centered meaning in the midst of a rapidly evolving artificial landscape.

From a young age, the inevitability and finality of death becomes a shaping force in our lives. Indeed, it could be said that our ability to recognise our eventual demise and the grief that comes with ...