The main objective of consensus statements appears to be to reduce doubt, which may stifle scientific inquiry.

The tech community came together for the launch of the Great Progression event series, curated by Peter Leyden and produced by Freethink.

In "Raising AI," author De Kai argues that AIs are more like society's children than machines under our control.

Sam Altman’s World Network uses iris-scanning Orbs to give people a way to prove that they are people — and not AIs — online.

Mistakes made by the US government 100 years ago could help us determine the best way to regulate AI-manipulated images and videos today.

A secret prototype, a hardware deal with Jony Ive, and millions of AI images suggest OpenAI is making a play for your social media feed.

From where we stand, the true limits to growth are currently unknowable and need not affect any decisions we make today.

Have we begun to lose faith in the future? The idea of ‘progress’ didn’t truly exist throughout the majority of human history. Most ages didn’t see history as an upward […]

Despite outperforming humans at many tasks, multimodal LLMs struggle to read time on a clock — just like many people with dyslexia.

Pessimists Archive is a project to jog our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia, and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas, and trends.

The appearance of a nonsense term in multiple scientific papers has exposed how flawed data in training sets can become embedded in AIs.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman join forces as OpenAI acquires io, Ive’s secretive AI hardware startup, for $6.5 billion.

We need to figure out what drives progress, what might cause it to slow down or stop, and what, if anything, we can do to re-accelerate it.

What happens when you ban cars? Step inside the first walkable neighborhood of its kind in the US.

Officials' warnings about the impact of video games on kids were never proven true. They may be making the same mistake with social media.

If violent video games caused real-world violence, we'd see spikes in crime right after their release. Instead, we see the opposite.

The 21st-century version of the Royal Society could be the Substack network that we are just starting to build out today.

Rather than meticulously crafting each line of code, developers can now “vibe” with AI tools using natural language.

The militaries that leverage the low-cost capabilities of AI the most will have a decisive advantage in the future.

"The idea that nuclear energy is inherently dangerous has become a kind of cultural reflex.”

When news outlets quote warnings of an impending AI catastrophe, they rarely mention the two main movements behind this narrative.

The FDA’s clearance of Precision Neuroscience's flexible electrode array pushes the startup ahead in the race to BCI commercialization.

Indie developers continue to push the video game industry forward as big-name publishers focus on safe bets and machine-pressed sequels.