Human Rights

Human Rights

A woman in a white dress sits on a chair by a window, reading a book in a softly lit room with a piano nearby, embodying the quiet charm of why read old books.
Reading classic books can teach you as much about the present as the past.
Illustration of a hand holding a pen, drawing a DNA double helix made of colored dots on a dark background.
It's time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.
A Möbius strip made from paper with printed text is displayed against a dark background.
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“As a reporter, you can look into the eyes of the people you're talking to and try to evaluate what they're thinking when they say what they say. But you are not really gonna get into their brain. There's only one artistic form that allows you to do that. “
A person holds an oval mirror in front of their face against a blue background, with their reflection appearing abstract and distorted, evoking the surreal influence of ai on self-perception.
If AI is modeled only on human intelligence, will it inherit only human ways of seeing the world?
An orange arrow looping to the right is overlaid on a collage of black-and-white portraits of philosophers.
Philosophers rarely change their minds. These thinkers did — often at social and professional cost.
Black and white illustration of a ship at shore, with people unloading goods and interacting on land; orange arc marks part of the scene.
In the Embers series, historian M.G. Sheftall shares the stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s last survivors and reveals why their testimony must endure.