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Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious

An AI’s answer to this question can reveal its inner life—or lack thereof.

March 4, 2019

The Case for Professors of Stupidity

The greatest problem facing the world today is a rule system.

January 29, 2019

Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls

The big-data makeover of humanity could be a recipe for disaster.

December 26, 2018

How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science

He believed the lawful harmony of the universe suggested the existence of Spinoza‘s God.

November 29, 2018

We Are All Bewildered Machines

Bewilderment is the antidote to scientific reductionism.

November 9, 2018

The Selfish Dataome

Does the data we produce serve us, or vice versa?

October 24, 2018

How Doctors Use Poetry

A Harvard medical student describes how he is learning to both treat and heal.

September 26, 2018