President Trump's headline-grabbing Golden Dome proposal can serve as the spark for a more realistic homeland defense upgrade.

As the history of tech demonstrates, we do not have to simply accept and adapt to AI. We can, collectively, choose what to do with it.

In the race to AGI, tech companies are borrowing playbooks from sports, finance, and film to land elite talent. Here's why.

"What if we could find coral that were more resistant to warming waters and transplant them to another place, like selective breeding is done?"

If we get AI right, it will accelerate empowerment, enabling people to learn any subject, start any business, and realize any vision.

We're leaving the app era and entering the age of ambient AI: intelligent help that’s always on, but never in the way.

Adopting the "cheat on everything" mentality — treating thinking as a burden AI can eliminate — is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.

Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.

Our next AI breakthrough will come when we unlock a source of data we’ve either overlooked or never fully harnessed.

Clear Windows, a new series for Freethink Voices by Daniel Jeffries, offers a clear-eyed alternative to the dark and dystopian technophobia of "Black Mirror," showcasing the power and promise of tomorrow's technology while never shying away from its realistic downsides.

Einstein blamed automation for the widespread unemployment of the Great Depression, but his reasoning was based on a false premise.

"We're living in an extraordinary moment in history. We are at a moment here in 2025 where we have world historic game-changing technologies now starting to scale."

Freethink talks to the creator of the world's most popular AI coding assistant to find out whether learning to code is still worthwhile.

Rather than banning AI, schools should adapt by designing assignments that promote responsible use and keep the focus on learning.

We met the team at PSYONIC, the minds developing one of the world’s most advanced robotic hands.

Bestselling author and Google Labs' Editorial Director Steven Johnson talks about the future of AI at Freethink's Great Progression event.

Adam Cheyer, co-founder of Siri and VP of AI Experience at Airbnb, talks about the future of AI at Freethink's Great Progression event.

Ryan Phelan, co-founder of Revive & Restore, talks about the future of conservation at Freethink's Great Progression event.

Believing in the next solution is not blind optimism or even wishful thinking — it is a recognition that humans are problem-solving animals.

Peter Leyden sums up the key themes and big ideas of his new series at a Freethink Conversation in San Francisco.

Activists push scary headlines about the harm they predict a technology will cause, but ignore the good things we stand to lose without it.

The impact of AGI on the economy will be big, it’ll happen fast, and it’ll be disruptive. Here's how the disruption could play out.

Economic growth is driven by ideas, not resources — and as history shows, the well of innovation is unlikely to ever run dry.

Decades before states started banning lab-grown meat, manufactured ice was the "unnatural" alternative under attack.

Innovators in every industry and field should adopt the same mantra: If you could start fresh with AI, then what would you do?

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.