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Progress Needs Participants

Progress needs data – and the most useful data comes from people, specifically those that make up the less fortunate half.

How the United States dismantled the guardrails of its democracy – and whether it can still recover.

The more robots act like us, the less they feel like tools. So how should we treat them? And what does that say about us?

AI could consume as much electricity as The Netherlands by 2027. New research warns we should use the technology only where it’s really needed.

Technological change seems the result of some natural and inevitable evolutionary process – but it’s not. It’s a choice.

New research suggests that generative AI has the potential to speed up diagnosis and reduce waiting times in the emergency department.