Three strategies for helping your son develop critical thinking skills. Gary Barker believes parents are inadvertently ceding too much ground to digital culture influencers who may not have their sons’ best interests at heart. As the president and CEO of the nonprofit think tank Equimundo, which promotes gender equality, Barker spends much of his …
Some police departments say kids could be in danger of accidentally sharing their contact info using NameDrop in iOS 17. This isn’t exactly true. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement. Warnings…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work. It’s hard enough to understand quantum computing, the potentially transformative next generation of computing. Unlike classical computers, which are powered by chips packed with billions of tiny transistors that process…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox The co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine. Sometime in the 1970s, the US lost the future. Productivity growth in the decades since has been in decline. Building things has gotten harder and harder and more and more expensive. Real scientific progress has stagnated,…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate Azeem Azhar is, as he puts it in his 2021 book The Exponential Age, a “child of the microchip,” born in 1972, the “year after the first commercially produced computer processor was released.” As a…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox Whittaker, the CEO of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence. New technologies can help connect us, but too often they come at a steep price: our privacy. The cost of constant interconnection is the threat of unwanted surveillance. Meredith Whittaker knows that all too well. A little over…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox How a renowned AI scientist became a voice for caution. Modern AI powered by deep learning only caught the world’s attention these last few years but some academic researchers have been working to develop and understand its potential for much, much longer than that. Among the uncontested leaders of the field…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox It might just be the most important job in the world. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, believes it’s on the cusp of transforming our world with powerful AI systems. At minimum, it thinks these will fundamentally change how we work and live. At maximum, it could make our world unrecognizable overnight….
Lauren Tamaki for Vox Donti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis. When Priya Donti was asked to choose any superpower, she responded: “Maybe the ability to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into basalt.” Short of that, she’s working on turning a…
Lauren Tamaki for Vox Christiano and Barnes have helped mainstream concerns about AI misalignment. The first arguments that AI “misalignment” — when artificially intelligent systems do not do what humans ask of them, or fail to align with human values — could pose a huge risk to humankind came from philosophers and autodidacts on the…