Is there a limit on how long humans can live? Read the full article: www.freethink.com/biotech/long... #Longevity

What if you could add 10 healthy years to your life? | R.M. Schneiderman with Joe Betts-LaCroix Read the full story here: www.freethink.com/biotech/joe-... #Longevity

What can the Model T teach us about building better systems today? This excerpt from Brian Potter's new book "The Origins of Efficiency" explores the roots of modern productivity: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...

Why can we locate a smartphone in seconds, but a jetliner can vanish into the ocean? Read the full essay: www.freethink.com/opinion/mari...

The Longevity Issue is live now! This special issue explores the science and philosophy of living longer with essays and interviews from experts like Eric Topol, B. David Zarley, and Josie Zayner. Some highlights: 🧵

A dramatization of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" is remembered as history's most infamous radio broadcast. The problem is... the panic following the broadcast was largely manufactured by news outlets. #PessimistsArchive

Anti-gravity could cut decade-long space journeys down to days. But is it real science or the ultimate disinformation campaign? Read the full story by Andrew Cote: www.freethink.com/space/anti-g...

Can a chatbot’s words truly be treated like human speech — or are we rewriting the First Amendment on fear? #AI #MentalHealth Read the full article by Christopher Ferguson: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

What does it mean when technology, not evolution, sets the limits of the human body? #Biology #History Read the full article by Elle Griffin: www.freethink.com/biotech/huma...

“What is it that these gut symbionts are doing that can protect us?” #Biology Read the full article by Namir Khaliq: www.freethink.com/biotech/worm...

Can AI outperform scientists? "As AI becomes more adept ... human-led lab experiments are becoming increasingly unnecessary." Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/biotech/ai-b...

Now, the Sony Walkman is a cultural icon. But back then it was “a bit Black Mirror." Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...

Would making AI more human make it smarter? Read the full interview with @PhilosophyMinis and @birchlse: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

"AI isn’t going to kill the entertainment industry, but it will end the creative bottleneck." #Opinion #AI #Automation

What if AI virtual cells could help us decode disease, test medication, and rewrite biology? Read the latest edition of Future Explored here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i... #FutureExplored #AI #Biology

Opinion: The Golden Dome should be built — just not the way Trump imagines. "Skeptics once thought an Iron Dome was unnecessary. Waves of rockets and missiles proved them wrong." Read the full article from Gal Winter: www.freethink.com/the-changing...

What if the real danger isn't AI, it's the humans that control it? The 2004 movie, "I, Robot" poses a convincing allegory to embrace AI innovation. Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

For decades, the assumption in discussions around technology is that we cannot stop it. We must simply adapt. But that assumption is wrong. Categorically wrong.

Mark Zuckerberg is stealing top AI engineers with $300 million pay packages. Here's why big tech is using the sports team playbook:

This neuroscientist is on a quest to cure comas. Read more: www.freethink.com/biotech/cure...

There are no new ideas in AI — only new datasets. All four big breakthroughs in LLMs happened because we unlocked a new source of data. What will be the next one? Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Albert Einstein was wrong. Automation didn't cause the Great Depression. Here's how the same faulty logic is now fueling fears about AI. Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

World Wars and the cost of progress

Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke explains how AI tools like Copilot are changing what it means to be a programmer. @ashtom @kristinjhouser Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

A call to innovators in Silicon Valley and beyond to help chart the new way forward. At a recent Freethink Conversation, Peter Leyden urges innovators to drive progress and help build a much better world. www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

The AGI economy is coming faster than you think. Many traditional jobs will be replaced by AI, but economically valuable complements are already visible. Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

The war on artificial ice. Before traditionalists attacked lab-grown meat, they attacked factory-made ice. www.freethink.com/the-material...

What if you could start civilization over with AI? To make the most of intelligent machines, we need to rebuild everything — including education — from scratch. www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

How consensus can undermine science What looks like unity is sometimes a strategy to silence disagreement. www.freethink.com/opinion/cons...

We produced an event with Peter Leyden to facilitate optimistic and needed discussions about the future. Here's what happened: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Why AI today is more toddler than Terminator In “Raising AI,” De Kai argues that today’s AIs are already more like humans than we think they are. www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

An illegal neighborhood?

How proof-of-human tech could save the internet Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity is banking on iris scans to restore trust in the digital world. Read more: www.freethink.com/the-digital-...

America tried to ban fake photos in 1912. The nation has been wrestling with manipulated images since long before AI. www.freethink.com/the-digital-...

The AI social network war has begun OpenAI is building a rival to X, while Meta plugs AI into everything. www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Are large language models dyslexic? Despite their sophistication, the AIs struggle to read clocks — just like many people with dyslexia. www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Delivery robots that tunnel into your home

AI thinks “vegetative electron microscopy” is real — it’s not. Hallucinations like this one have been traced back to "Digital fossils" in training data — small anomalies that result in the AI sharing false and sometimes harmful information.

How much do drugs actually cost to make?

What does the perfect battery look like?

The most consequential designer of the modern age is teaming up with Sam Altman, Silicon Valley’s visionary. “In the same way that the smartphone didn’t make the laptop go away, I don’t think our first thing is going to make the smartphone go away.” — Sam Altman

Jony Ive has found his new Steve Jobs. But what are they building? www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Jony Ive has found his new Steve Jobs. But what are they building? www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Jony Ive has found his new Steve Jobs. But what are they building? www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Officials have a history of making unsupported claims about the impact of tech on children. Here's what we can learn from the surgeon general's war on Pacman...

I tasted lab grown meat

Grand Theft Auto 6’s delay could lead to a spike in real-life crime

Why Substack will be the intellectual engine of the 21st century www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Vibe coding is taking over. The AI-driven approach takes you from idea to app in minutes. "We're moving from an era where humans must adapt to the rigid logic of machines to one where machines increasingly adapt to human modes of expression."

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