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Why Graduates Are Booing Eric Schmidt (and the future of AI)
Why Graduates Are Booing Eric Schmidt (and the future of AI) 225 225 Jamie Metzl

You may have heard about how former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others giving graduation speeches referencing the upside potential of AI were booed by students. These boos reflect the…

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Virtual Life is also Real Life
Virtual Life is also Real Life 259 194 Jamie Metzl

In the Fall of 2008, I published the article linked here and reproduced below in the World Policy Journal. In light of the incredible progress making it increasingly feasible for…

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A 2025 Summer Reading List You’ve Never Imagined
A 2025 Summer Reading List You’ve Never Imagined 301 168 Jamie Metzl

Two months ago, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Philadelphia Enquirer, and other news outlets across the country caused a firestorm when they mistakenly published a summer 2025 reading list written by…

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AI, Governance, and the Future of Humanity
AI, Governance, and the Future of Humanity 275 183 Jamie Metzl

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
ChatGPT and Humanity’s Eternal Sonata 267 400 Jamie Metzl

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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Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom to Conquer Ageing (but…)
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom to Conquer Ageing (but…) Jamie Metzl
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter’s announcement that he is creating a company to try to conquer human ageing is great news. His theory that the human gut biome holds the key to the aging process is only a hypothesis, but there’s no harm done by testing it by sequencing 40,000 genomes in a year. read more

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