How superintelligent AI could rob us of agency, free will, and meaning
Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot…
How AI could reboot science and revive long-term economic growth
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. A Pew Research Center survey published…
How zero sum thinking hurts the economy and growth
I live in New York City, which fashions itself as many things: the financial capital of the world,…
Can fish feel pain? That may be the wrong question.
What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw…
How to fight AI at work
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral…
AI voice cloning complicates estate planning for celebrities’ legacies
Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max…
Why did we send Laika to space? The tragedy of the first animal to orbit the earth, explained
In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered —…
US adult obesity rate drops as GLP-1 weight-loss drugs surge
For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it…
What did cavemen really eat? The myth of the carnivore diet.
Across the far right, a paranoid prophecy has been taking hold: the belief that globalist elites want to…
Bird flu is back. Will egg prices rise as it infects more and more farms?
It might now be a distant memory, but by the end of last winter, the average cost of…
Does my protein powder have lead in it?
Americans’ love affair with protein powders may slowly be poisoning them with the known neurotoxin lead. That, at…
US farmers are struggling to sell soybeans. Here’s how to think about the trade war.
Americans have a weird relationship with soy, one of the most important and widely cultivated crops in the…