Kelsey Piper
Viewpoint: AI is getting smarter every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing
AI gets smarter, more capable, and more world-transforming every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing ...
What future dangers might Artificial Intelligence introduce? Experts clash
There are teams of researchers in academia and at major AI labs these days working on the problem of AI ...
Viewpoint: ‘Trading one moral catastrophe for another’ — Why swapping beef for chicken won’t fix animal agriculture’s ‘devastating’ environmental impact
[O]ften, the messaging is that we can save the world by switching out our beef consumption for chicken. The problem ...
Is hydroxychloroquine useless and dangerous, or not? Major study released last week dissing therapy now under scrutiny
Does President Trump’s favored coronavirus treatment, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, make you more likely to die of Covid-19? That was ...
Can you buy a synthetic version of the deadly 1918 influenza? There’s no law against it—and that has security experts worried
In the past few years, something new has become possible in biology: cheaply “printing” DNA for insertion into a cell ...
While Americans are ambivalent about plant-based ‘clean meat’ protein alternatives, Chinese and Indians are enthusiastic
Would you eat a burger grown from animal cells rather than a whole cow? What about a plant-based burger, once ...
