Is It Too Soon to Consider Genome Sequencing for Newborns?
Parents and clinicians have their own ideas about newborn genome sequencing. How much weight, if any, should patients’ perceptions carry?
A.I. Will Enable You To Find Purpose In Life Instead Of Just Flipping Burgers All Day
Martin Ford, a leading expert on A.I., robotics and job automation taks about the future of work, robotic dogs, and dystopic visions.
Can robots ever have a true sense of self? Scientists are making progress
While scientists are still a long way from creating robots with a human-like sense of self, they are getting closer.
What it Means to be Human in the 4th Industrial Revolution
We’ll soon have the extraordinary means to enhance ourselves using biological and artificial materials.
Brain-to-brain interfaces: Brain Scientists control rat’s movements with their minds
Mind control is no longer science-fiction. Brain-to-brain interfaces are an exciting but extremely rudimentary development in neurotechnology.
How to Control the Capabilities of Superintelligence?
People, like Nick Bostrom, one of the top experts on Superintelligence, think we need to invent some controlling methods to minimize the risk of AGI.
Battling Parkinson’s disease by rejuvenating ageing cells
Fixing body tissues by knocking out genes that prevent bad mitochondrial from being ousted in a timely fashion might sound like science fiction.
We’re not prepared for the genetic revolution that’s coming
As computing power has increased, scientists have been able to link many individual molecular differences in DNA with specific human characteristics.
Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?
Releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health represents a new frontier in biotechnology.
Understanding Our AI Future
Major theoretical breakthroughs in AI have finally yielded practical applications that are poised to change our lives.
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