Autonomous software agents are being sold as workers. They are closer to interns with unlimited stamina and no sense of consequence — and every intern needs an editor.
As AI becomes more powerful, a deeper question emerges: what does it mean to build intelligence that understands us? A new era calls for a more human approach.
Better instruments, machine learning and a broader idea of what to look for have transformed a once-marginal science into a serious one. The silence is getting more interesting.
Not for us, not instead of us — with us. The most consequential shift in artificial intelligence is the one happening inside ordinary conversations, and it needs a social contract.
For the first time, ageing is being studied as a process that might be measured, slowed and perhaps partly reversed. Separating the evidence from the enthusiasm has never mattered more.
AI, biology and the next era of human potential. While the world watches silicon, a quieter revolution is teaching living systems to learn, sense and decide.
For all of history, thinking has been expensive. As the marginal cost of a competent answer falls toward zero, every institution built on scarce expertise will have to be rebuilt.
