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23 February 2025

Superintelligence arrives. Do we face abundance or apocalypse? | Nick Bostrom

Suppose humans create superintelligence. What happens next? A "solved world" sans disease and despair?

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23 February 2025

Why we need to train our brain for compassion | Matthieu Ricard

There is science to the experience of our emotions. Compassion and empathy, inner strength and simple joys — imagine building them up like muscles in our bodies.

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22 February 2025

Psych wars. Cyber crime. And hacking for peace | ‪Yigal Unna & Wu Min Hsuan

$10 trillion. The amount wiped off the global economy due to cyber crime every year.

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22 February 2025

Why India needs to build AI | Nivruti Rai

India will invest $2.3 billion in AI R&D this year.

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22 February 2025

De-extinction could save the planet | George Church, Ben Lamm

DNA is no longer destiny, but a modifiable instruction manual. Thanks to gene-editing

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22 February 2025

Stories. Sci-fi. And tech as the “most unique human trait” | Ken Liu

Science fiction gave us Frankenstein. 1984. Cyberpunk.

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22 February 2025

Your brain is a prediction machine | Anil Seth

The brain, home to 86 billion neurones, sits inside the skull where there is no light or sensation. How does it then view the world?

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22 February 2025

Why the philosophy of the forest to save humanity | Rita Banerji

86% of the Earth’s living species are yet to be discovered.

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22 February 2025

AI potency & peril: Pushmeet Kohli on AlphaFold | Paolo Benanti on AI ethics

Google DeepMind's AI tool AlphaFold solved a five-decade scientific mystery – and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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22 February 2025

Breath as technology. For body, reality, consciousness | Eddie Stern

We take 20,000 breaths a day. 600 million in our lifetime.

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