Will regulatory hurdles give China the edge in orbital data centers?

A viral essay argues AI is about to make most human work obsolete. We asked Noah Smith, Andrew Yang, Tyler Cowen, Gary Marcus, and others to weigh in.

Resistance grows to more land sales in Northern Virginia. “They’d rather have homes than data,” said a former Prince William County supervisor.

Exploring the rise of nihilism and conspiracy theories in American politics amid growing public frustration.

Transhumanism is the view that humanity’s problems can and should be solved through science and technology. Transhumanists envision a techno-utopian society referred to as a triple ‘S’ civilization of Superintelligence, Superlongevity, and Superhappiness, a future where there is a gradual blurring of the traditional boundaries between human persons and machines.…

Artificial intelligence is replacing young people’s social intuitions.

Newly unsealed documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens.

A majority of pastors are now using artificial intelligence to prepare their sermons, with ChatGPT and Grammarly reported as the top two AI tools, new survey data shows.

In the coming era, believers may turn to charismatic religious leaders—or to oracular machines, writes Tyler Cowen…

It’s no secret that addictive digital technologies like smartphones and social media apps are harming a generation of kids socially, mentally, and even physically. But a workable solution seems elusive. After all, don’t kids need phones, and won’t they be vulnerable or socially isolated without tech?