Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

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AI is not a rupture in history, but a continuation of intelligence emerging where information becomes systematically arranged.
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Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.
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Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.
Book cover titled "Governing Pandora" by Andrea Bonime-Blanc featuring a colorful, geometric open box on a black background with white text—reflecting themes relevant to the Age of Pandora.
Why we should balance innovation with stewardship — while reframing the “techno-optimists versus doomers” polarization.
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Practical guidance for navigating AI’s role in modern learning organizations.
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Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
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AI will shape the future of work, but human leadership will decide whether that future is good — and happiness should be the touchstone.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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The case for why AI systems are not merely "stochastic parrots."
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Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left -- and has a big opportunity ahead.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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The Department of Energy's newest mission seeks to make a unified AI platform across all national labs. Will it help US science, or kill it?
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As technology advances, more opportunities for cheating arise. Large language models aren't posing a new problem; they're how students cheat themselves.
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In “Rewiring Democracy,” Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore how AI could strengthen democracy or undermine it.
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As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
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The HuffPost co-founder is now focusing on AI and health — but she’s keeping an eye on agency and human nature.
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Researcher and Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas joins us to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?"
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Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Real progress demands rules built for uncertainty — not for the few innovations dominating today’s tech landscape.
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Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.
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With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.
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The case that a bipartisan movement structured around progress and reform may be reaching critical mass.
Book cover titled "Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of AI," highlighting the evolution of AI China, with editor and contributor names listed in English and Chinese.
Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.
Book cover of "Do Aliens Speak Physics?" by Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner, featuring a blue background, yellow and white text, and an illustration of a robot and people interacting.
Do aliens speak the same physics that we do, with similar laws, observables, and underlying mathematics. Maybe not, argues Daniel Whiteson.
Book cover of "The Shortest History of AI" by Toby Walsh, featuring blue and white text on a dark background with a small glowing circle near the center—an apt nod to early AI like Logic Theorist.
In this excerpt from "The Shortest History of AI," Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.