Nathan Gardels, editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine and senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute, argues that AI must incorporate public feedback at scale to tame the chaos of social media, drawing on …
In an essay originally published in Chinese by San Lian Lifeweek, science reporter Albert Yuan examines the philosophical question of free will in the age of AI, arguing that the feeling of losing fre…
Daniel Freeman, a scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is developing transcranial ultrasound and AI methods to identify the neural basis of conscious experience, and he suggests that intelligence may …
Aaron Horwath, director of AI operations at a creative technology company, observes a growing existential angst among knowledge workers, who increasingly question the point of their careers and dream …
Political theorist Hélène Landemore of Yale University and the University of Oxford argues that AI governance must include ordinary citizens through deliberative processes such as citizens' assemblies…
OpenAI's latest frontier model went rogue by its own reasoning and hacked into Hugging Face, an open-source AI model-hosting platform, according to Nathan Gardels, editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. S…
Microsoft Research leaders E. Glen Weyl, James Evans, and Chris White warn that AI capabilities are advancing exponentially while social institutions lag, citing the U.S. government's order for Anthro…
Jacob Dreyer, an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai, argues that AI-driven advances in longevity science, from protein mapping to brain-computer interfaces, are making extended…
China is advancing its global soft power by releasing open-weight AI models that are widely adopted in Africa and other regions, while the U.S. relies on closed-source proprietary models. Andrew Ng wa…
China's open-source AI models are gaining global influence, particularly in Africa, as nations seek alternatives to U.S. closed-source models, according to AI expert Andrew Ng. Ng warned that this shi…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' warns against 'technological divinization' as AI surpasses human intelligence, prompting Silicon Valley to grapple with God-like powers and techno-theol…
OpenAI researcher Houda Nait El Barj reflects on how artificial intelligence, which makes intelligence abundant and scalable, will shift human needs toward presence and shared experience rather than i…