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Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.
Anne-Marie Rosser — CEO of creative agency VSA Partners — shares her cross-generational vision for a new brand of leadership.
AI has become a black box in more ways than one.
There's value to be found in the arguments that make you uncomfortable — especially in a culture that has trained us to avoid them.
We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.
Famed activist Bayard Rustin constantly faced the dilemma of coordinating collective pursuits among diverse groups of people.
Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
More accurate uncertainty estimates could help users decide about how and when to use machine-learning models in the real world.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
"If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception."
There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.
A researcher weighs in on who’s accountable, when and why, in the eyes of the law — and whether the measures work as intended.
Should social media platforms have the right to decide what speech to allow online? Should the government?
A reader asks whether we have an ethical responsibility to always debate bad beliefs, especially those that come from our elders.
The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value.
Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.
No matter your company role, the road to a happy and robust team culture can be built on unconditional regard for others.
Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.
Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?
Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
Throughout the world, traditional political organizations are increasingly seen as dysfunctional. But can democracies live without them?
When does "oversharing" become an issue?
Most counties in the U.S. have only one local newspaper, often one that publishes weekly instead of daily.
Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
NASA's only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here's the sober truth.