MIT Technology Review
Pentagon nears use of untested AI in life-and-death war targeting decisions
The US military might use generative AI systems to rank lists of targets and make recommendations—which would be vetted by ...
Viewpoint: Should you quit ChatGPT on ethical grounds?
QuitGPT is one of the latest salvos in a growing movement by activists and disaffected users to cancel their subscriptions ...
Why you shouldn’t follow RFK, Jr.’s meat-intensive diet
Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again mates have long been extolling the virtues of meat and whole-fat dairy, so ...
Defeating death: ‘Vitalists’ seek to rebrand the longevity movement
[T]he Vitalist Bay Summit ... hosted various events to explore tools—from drug regulation to cryonics—that might be deployed in the ...
Dr. Google is being kicked to the curb. Welcome to AI. Will the diagnoses be any better?
For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look ...
Can power-voracious AI rely on nuclear energy?
Nuclear power has emerged as a strong candidate for companies looking to power data centers while cutting emissions. Unlike wind ...
Can AI revolutionize science research?
... OpenAI is making an explicit play for scientists. In October, the firm announced that it had launched a whole ...
The dawn of the era of the AI therapist
Given the clear demand for accessible and affordable mental-health services, it’s no wonder that people have looked to artificial intelligence ...
Viewpoint: Trump is undermining U.S. success in science and innovation
Ever since World War II, the US has been the global leader in science and technology—and benefited immensely from it ...
10 Top Breakthrough Technologies
What will really matter in the long run? That's the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual ...
Breakthrough disruptive technology ‘flops’: What can we learn?
In some cases, the vision behind a breakthrough was prescient but the technology of the day was not the best ...
AI doomerism is so passé. Or is it?
It’s a weird time to be an AI doomer. This small but influential community of researchers, scientists, and policy experts ...
AI hype takes a hit—For most businesses, the revolutionary tool falls short
Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an ...
‘Miracle’ GLP-1 weight loss drugs could complicate some pregnancies
The more we learn about GLP-1 agonists, the more miraculous they seem to be. What can’t they do?! you might ...
The fear that AI machines will soon be smarter than humans is just another conspiracy theory
Every age has its believers, people with an unshakeable faith that something huge is about to happen—a before and an ...
Is animal testing still necessary? Will it be phased out?
[The] UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. ... The news follows similar moves by ...
A third start-up joins the race to create ethically-acceptable CRISPR babies
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely ...
Are chatbots sophisticated enough to debunk conspiracy theories?
Many people believe that you can’t talk conspiracists out of their beliefs. But that’s not necessarily true. It turns out ...
Will we ever have a sex robot?
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he thinks that ...
Conspiracy peddlers have been around for centuries. What’s behind their recent surge in popularity?
QAnon’s mutation from a conspiracy theory on an internet message board into a movement with the characteristics of a cult ...
Tom Brady paid $50,000 to clone his beloved dog. The same procedure can help revive endangered, inbred species
[We] heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually a clone ...
How will climate change affect the flowers of the future?
We might notice the time of year they bloom and connect that to our changing climate. Perhaps we are familiar ...
Here’s the scoop on Big Tech’s multi-million dollar carbon removal climate bet
Today, after [US pulp and paper] factories chip the softwood and digest it into pulp, the leftover lignin, spent chemicals, ...
Could leucovorin be the magic bullet to treat autism?
The medication is called leucovorin. It’s also known as folinic acid; like folic acid, it’s a form of folate, a ...
At Beijing ‘Axis Summit’, Putin and Xi spout misinformation about organ transplants and immortality
“These days at 70 years old you are still a child,” China’s Xi Jinping, 72, was translated as saying, according ...
Trust issues: What happens when therapists use ChatGPT?
Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The ...
Some judges are adapting AI for use in court cases though hallucination problems have not been solved
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display ...
Longevity medicine: Exploitation or an innovative approach to health?
Establishing a new discipline of medicine is no mean feat. Longevity doctors have started to make progress by establishing learning ...
