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A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.
The predictions of evolutionary theorists and current advances in “multimodal AI” offer strong clues to the future of employment.
A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.
The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.
Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.
Nuclear chemist Tim Gregory joins Big Think to make the case that nuclear energy can still transform the world for the better.
In the post-AI startup landscape, the role of the entrepreneur will evolve from operator to orchestrator. Are you ready?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.
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Author and geopolitical strategist Paulo Cardoso do Amaral urges us to ask: Will we shape AI with wisdom, or will AI reshape us with strategy?
The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.
Agentic AI pioneer Chetan Dube considers ways that everyone can be lifted by the tide of AI, not just those with the capital to leverage it.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Snorre Kjesbu — SVP & GM of Cisco’s Employee Experience group — has a bold vision for the future of human interaction.
"The rise of the internet brought about similar fears, yet it ultimately made learning richer and more accessible."
In "Raising AI," De Kai argues that today's AIs are already more like us than we think they are.
The platform is a digital Royal Society for today's greatest minds — and it could play an essential role in shaping the next civilization.
"Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain," writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.
Just 10 years ago, humanity had never directly detected a single gravitational wave. We're closing in on 300 now, with so much more to come!
You don't need to be a scientist or a philosopher for facts, reality, and the truth to matter. The alternative is simply known as bullshit.
The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.
Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what's possible with AI in the next 25 years.
Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.
By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.
Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.