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AIs are increasingly perceiving our world, but in order to comprehend it, our user interfaces must operate in reverse.

As AI rapidly reshapes our world, narrow, single-view thinking risks mistaking part of the picture for the whole.

A project to turn nuclear warheads into safe electricity was astonishingly successful in the post-Cold War era. Could it happen again?

Consciousness is not the “hard problem” that philosophers say it is.

Scientists working on synthetic “mirror life” have come to realize that, if created, it could pose an existential threat to life on Earth.

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and transformative AI represents a rupture of comparable magnitude.

Teacher Li, a new species of dissident, is paving the way.

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

It’s time to move past the fantasy that humans are absolutely self-sovereign.

Embracing the relentless ally of reality makes all the difference.

In the Nevada underground, civilization’s longest promise remains unkept.

A race to map Papua’s tropical ice before it’s gone forever.

Those most in the know are aware of what little they know.

History shows that bad leaders can successfully undermine democracy — but the story always ends the same way.