Science of the Future
Viewpoint: ‘Broligarchs’ and the emerging age of tech authoritarianism
There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, all ...
Edging toward Agriculture 3.0: Genetics, irrigation and fertilization are improving—Is that enough for the leap forward necessary to feed the world?
Sometime in the 1980s, an unprecedented change in the human condition occurred. For the first time in known history, the ...
‘Digital twins’: 3-D digital organs are poised to revolutionize medical treatments
“Digital twins” are the same size and shape as the real thing. They work in the same way. But they ...
Breakthrough technologies: Global poll highlights embrace of AI in health care, gene editing and cell based meat, although optimism of U.S. respondents lags
Scientific advances will only succeed if people are willing to embrace them. Leaps by Bayer (the company’s impact investment arm) ...
Meat processors are making the move from simple automation systems to smart robots and AI. Here’s why
Facilities in several market segments of the meat processing industry have already embraced robot automation and AI technology. For other ...
Readers beware: AI vaccums up information from the internet and spews it out
If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your ...
User beware: China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot is a hotbed of Chinese, Russian and Iranian disinformation
Chinese company DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot advanced the positions of the Beijing government 60 percent of the time in response to prompts ...
Deploying AI to super charge CRISPR applications in medicine and agriculture
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the biotech industry seems boundless. Its combination with CRISPR could be the one area where ...
Quirky DeepSeek: A look under the hood of China’s clever new open-source search engine
DeepSeek’s success and a technical paper it published last week suggest that Chinese AI developers can match their U.S. counterparts ...
GLP podcast: AI chatbot convinces student to commit suicide. ‘Smart’ agriculture isn’t so smart; Will alcohol warning labels save lives?
Another teenager has committed suicide following some horrifying encouragement from an AI chatbot to "please die." Who's at fault when ...
How AI is trying to figure out the cause of the LA fires
What’s shaping up to be one of the worst wildfire disasters in US history had many causes. Before the blazes raged ...
How AI is being used to create new drugs and vaccines
A £225m supercomputer is using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop new drugs and vaccines. When it is fully operational this ...
5 hot new trends for AI in 2025
[W]hat’s coming in 2025 [in AI]? We’re going to ignore the obvious here: You can bet that agents and smaller, ...
AI poised to unleash a new generation of bio stimulants
Syngenta and a UK artificial intelligence company are combining forces to use the 'full power of AI' for the development ...
Paper chase crisis: Academic journals are besieged by AI-generated editorials and commentaries designed to pump up CVs, undermining their quality
On [22 October 2024], an unusual editorial appeared in the journal Neurosurgical Review. “We have made the difficult decision to ...
Are there different types of intelligence? Yes, and AI can tell you which form you have
In [a] study published in PNAS Nexus, scientists have demonstrated that artificial intelligence can predict different types of human intelligence ...
‘You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please’: A 14-year old took AI seriously. Who is responsible?
Demonic forces which lured unsuspecting innocents to their deaths were once the subject of myth. No longer. And while we ...
Non-trivial AI evolution
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...
Will AI robots ever be safe enough to fully welcome them into our homes?
The world might seem to be on the brink of a humanoid-robot heyday. [B]reakthroughs in artificial intelligence promise the type ...
Interspecies translation: Here’s how humans and animals may soon be able to talk
In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a ...
The ol’ org chart is getting an AI upgrade and businesses can not get it fast enough
Ever since the invention of the org chart in the 1850s, company structures have changed very little—they are hierarchical and ...
How close is AI to creating a catastrophic bio weapon—or causing other superhuman damage?
The release of ChatGPT ... set off fears that AI could soon be capable of surpassing human intellect—and with that ...
Why 2025 will be a turning point for AI
2025 will be a defining year for AI, shifting from generalized applications to enterprise-focused solutions. Businesses will refine their strategies ...
We are well on our way to automating science
Many scientists are already excited about AI. In a Nature survey of 1,600 scientists published in September 2023, more than half of ...
Does AI encourage violence? It comes close
In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking ...
The first AI-guided garden where the plants tell you when they are thirsty
Have you ever joyously stepped out to your backyard garden, freshly brewed coffee in hand, only to find your meticulously cared-for ...
AI will influence human evolution. Here’s how
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A ...
