Anil Seth suggests the difference is that living beings are rooted in time and entropy, a grounding that may be essential for consciousness.

Biotech labs are mining worm chemistry to design medicines that calm the immune system without the risks of live infection.

"There are things that Notebook does that are genuinely 10 to 100 times faster."

Before completion for the 1889 World’s Fair, the Eiffel Tower project was treated by some as an industrialist "Tower of Babel."

From curing rare diseases to extending lifespans, four biotech founders share how AI is rewriting the future of medicine.

A bold vision of a 10x better future where humanity has mastered biology, energy, and matter to unlock unprecedented progress.

The US must regulate AI in a way that protects society, preserves America’s competitive edge, and fosters innovation — all at the same time.

Emmett Shear: If we want AI to be on our side, it needs to see its part of the greater whole.

Today, the Sony Walkman inspires nostalgia, but in the 1980s, it was feared as a dangerous device that could disconnect society.

Philosopher Jonathan Birch argues that sentience might be essential to “higher” forms of intelligence, including truly intelligent AI.

By slashing costs, AI will spark a creative renaissance in the entertainment industry, leading to more working artists, not fewer.

An excerpt from "Rad Future: The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How It Will Save the World" by Isabelle Boemeke.

America’s new mission isn’t just to invent the new technology of AI. It must invent the systems that then make the most of AI.

Biologists are skipping the petri dish and using AI-powered virtual cells to experiment in silico.

"AI today is like the Internet, say 1995. We're at the HTML when it was just the blink tag."

What if refilling an EV battery could be done in the same amount of time it takes to refuel a tank of gas? Say goodbye to overnight recharges — Ample […]

ChatGPT and other AI-powered tools are quietly reshaping how people interpret, challenge, and act on medical advice.

“I, Robot” is a convincing allegory in favor of embracing AI innovation rather than over-regulating, centralizing, and stifling it.

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.