It’s a huge deal that UK regulators today granted their first-ever approval for a gene therapy created using CRISPR. Casgevy, developed by the companies Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics, treats the…
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AI, Governance, and the Future of Humanity
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If you weren’t previously paying attention to AI, I am guessing now you are. It’s hard for most people to imagine the ChatGPT bot was only released to the public…
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ChatGPT and Humanity’s Eternal Sonata
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If you are living somewhere on planet Earth, I imagine by now you have heard of the incredible AI chatbot ChatGPT. Although the technology underpinning ChatGPT is not more advanced than many…
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We Can’t Get Out of this Alone
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Thousands of people are now dead and billions now sheltering at home in fear of a proliferating deadly virus that could have been contained at its source. But even though…
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Virtualizing our Physical Lives
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As more of us sensibly restrict our social interactions in an effort to slow the spread of this coronavirus, we will speed up a process of virtualizing our physical world…
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Being Human in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
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My short story, “A Visit to Weizenbaum,” which recently came out yesterday as part of the Atlantic Council’s War Stories from the Future anthology. The story explores what it means to be a human being in an age of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and anthropomorphized robotics. You can download the e-book for free in any format at this link or read the full text below.
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