Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene
If we are to develop machines that think, ensuring that they are beneficial is one of the great intellectual challenges of this century.
The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future
Now, through the combination of HI and AI, we are at the brink of the most consequential technological development of our time, and in history.
The future of brain and machine is intertwined, and it’s already here
The first trials of retinal implants have now taken place, in which signals from a camera are used to stimulate retinal neurons.
Genome Sequencing for Healthy People: Is it Time?
More of us are asking this question: why not also use genome sequencing to help seemingly healthy people screen for all sorts of conditions?
Balancing the Opposing Forces of Innovation
We must realize the socially constructive benefits of exponential technology, while mitigating the risk of unintended consequences.
Considering ethics now before radically new brain technologies get away from us
New brain technologies will have the potential to alter how someone thinks, feels, behaves and even perceives themselves and others around them.
We’ve been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years
Studies add weight to the idea that life arose deep in the ocean within warm, rocky structures called hydrothermal vents.
NASA’s spaceflight DNA sequencer: What will it do for science and medicine?
The uses of the sequencer in Earth orbit – and eventually on the Moon and on flights to Mars or asteroids – will be multifold.
What will humans look like in 100 years?
It is actually unethical not to evolve the human body even though it can be scary, even though it can be challenging.
Meet the biohackers letting technology get under their skin
There is a new community of biohackers or “grinders” that has sprung up to experiment with enhancing the human body with technology.
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