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Artificial Intelligence
Real progress demands rules built for uncertainty — not for the few innovations dominating today’s tech landscape.
Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.
With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.
The case that a bipartisan movement structured around progress and reform may be reaching critical mass.
Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.
Do aliens speak the same physics that we do, with similar laws, observables, and underlying mathematics. Maybe not, argues Daniel Whiteson.
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.
A look at how criminals are using unrestricted chatbots and how cyber defenders are fighting back.
A preview of the latest novel by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author.
"What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing."
Early warning signs show AI is eating into the entry-level job market — a potential harbinger of things to come.
If AI is modeled only on human intelligence, will it inherit only human ways of seeing the world?
Companies are pouring resources into AI, yet capability gaps hold employees back from using it effectively.
In this excerpt from "Governing Babel," John Wihbey explores how AI is reshaping online moderation by offering tools that can help human moderators, but also raises the risk of disinformation and digital chaos.
Behind the plateau in corporate AI lies a surge in personal and agentic use.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The incredible story of how the US Army began the march toward generative AI in 1943 — and what it means for your business today.
A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.
The predictions of evolutionary theorists and current advances in “multimodal AI” offer strong clues to the future of employment.
A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.
The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.
Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.
Nuclear chemist Tim Gregory joins Big Think to make the case that nuclear energy can still transform the world for the better.
In the post-AI startup landscape, the role of the entrepreneur will evolve from operator to orchestrator. Are you ready?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.
John Templeton Foundation
Author and geopolitical strategist Paulo Cardoso do Amaral urges us to ask: Will we shape AI with wisdom, or will AI reshape us with strategy?