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A good why can still produce bad outcomes. Here is the case a reader made me wrestle with. *** After I published The AI Paradox: Cure or Poison? last week, a reader asked me a question I have been thinking about ever since. She did not ask whether AI could malfunction. She did not ask […]

Technology promised simplicity. It delivered complexity. AI promised resolution. It is delivering acceleration. The paradox is not a bug. It is the feature. The question is what we choose to do about it. *** Every new technology arrives wearing the costume of liberation. It promises freedom. It promises options. It promises to save us time, […]

We have godlike technology. Do we have godlike responsibility to match? In this third conversation with Steven Kotler — our first in 14 years — we dig into his latest book, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, co-written with Peter Diamandis. And while the book makes a powerful case […]