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Does the world need another Future of Humanity Institute?
We still need radical and boundary-transcending research and thinking around the future of humanity in a technologically complex age
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Andrew Maynard
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Are we ready to navigate the complex ethics of advanced AI assistants?
An important new paper lays out the importance and complexities of ensuring increasingly advanced AI-based assistants are developed and used responsibly
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Can AI be used to automate social science research?
A new paper on arXiv provocatively asks whether AI can do the same for social science as it's doing for discovery in other areas
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Rethinking Biology – A Conversation with Michael Levin
How do the cells in a ridge on your fingertip know where they’re supposed to go? Or what tells the cells on the tip of your tongue what a tongue looks…
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ASU students flex their creative muscles with ChatGPT Enterprise
Students got to benefit from Arizona State University's collaboration with OpenAI at a recent hackathon as they used ChatGPT Enterprise for the first…
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Welcome to the age of swipe and select embryos
Prospective parents now have the option to pay for full-genome sequencing to decide which of their embryos go to term, and which do not
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Futures Past and Present: How a Multigenerational Class Is Changing Perspectives on Technology and Society
This past semester I had nearly as many retirees as undergrad students in my discussion class on tech and the future. And it's been amazing!
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March 2024

We have a technology problem – and it probably isn't what you think
Technology innovation is often seen as a problem or a solution when it comes to building better futures. But the relationship between tech and the…
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Michael Levin and the shifting landscape of biological form and function
Mike Levin's work on the biology of form and function is groundbreaking – and the underlying ideas and implications are transforming our ideas of what…
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Could OpenAI's Sora be a big deal for elementary school kids?
Despite all the challenges it comes with, AI-generated video could unleash the creativity of young children and provide insights into their inner worlds…
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Elon Musk's Neuralink plays "mind games" in more ways than one
Neuralink has released a video of its first patient successfully using an implanted brain computer interface. It's impressive, but there's still a steep…
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Are we putting our undergrads in playpens when they need playgrounds?
Last week I wrote about what we should be teaching students to prepare them for the future. That led me down a rabbit hole of how we should be teaching…
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