Imagining a conversation between the two great minds.

When Einstein and Kafka Met

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Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

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A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God

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Kristen French

AI Art Is Human Art

Iyad Rahwan is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans &amp; Machines.

Iyad Rahwan

Azim Shariff is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology.

Azim Shariff

Jean-François Bonnefon is a CNRS research director, with affiliations to the Toulouse School of Economics, where he chairs the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; the Toulouse School of Management; the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse of which he is the director; and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute where he is chair of moral artificial intelligence.

Jean-François Bonnefon

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

Jonny-James Kajoba and Michael Genet in Spare Parts. As their characters Ivan Shelley, an executive assistant, and Zeit Smith, a billionaire, they undergo a blood exchange. Photo by Russ Rowland

Money Can’t Buy You Youth

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Namir Khaliq

The Books That Blew These Scientists’ Minds

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