Living intelligence packages: overview, current state, key players, timeline, papers, open questions and what to watch — updated as the story changes.
AI
Artificial general intelligence — AGI — is the shorthand for machine systems whose capabilities match or exceed human performance across most economic…
Updated Sep 6, 2026
Software systems that pursue goals over many steps — planning, using tools, and acting with limited supervision. Agents are the form in which AI capab…
Mind
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) read neural activity and translate it into signals a machine can use — and, in some designs, write information back. …
Future
Energy from fusing light nuclei — the process that powers stars. Scientific ignition was demonstrated in 2022; engineering break-even and commercial p…
General-purpose robots in human form, intended to work in spaces built for people. After decades of research demonstrations, a wave of companies is at…
BiologyMember
Longevity science studies ageing as a biological process that might be measured, slowed and perhaps partly reversed. It spans molecular biology, clini…
Computers that exploit superposition and entanglement to solve certain problems far faster than classical machines. The field has demonstrated 'suprem…
Biology
The engineering of living systems: designing genetic circuits, proteins and organisms to sense, compute and produce. Reading and writing DNA are now c…
Unknown
Reports of objects and phenomena that observers cannot identify, now studied under official programmes and, separately, by academic groups. Neurazine …