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Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline
Why should studying AI behavior be restricted to those who make AI?
Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?
The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.
Scary AI Is More “Fantasia” Than “Terminator”
Ex-Googler Nate Soares on AI’s alignment problem.
Al Gore Does His Best Ralph Waldo Emerson
The former vice president reads the transcendentalist poet—and reminds us of one.
It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
Why Women Choose Differently at Work
Psychologist Susan Pinker on the role of choice in gender differences in the workplace.
Why Happiness Is Hard to Find—in the Brain
Talking blobology with a neuroimaging researcher.
The City at the Center of the Cosmos
Robots and lasers are uncovering an ancient, sacred geography.