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Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?

Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology... Read more »

Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis

Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology... Read more »

Roundtables: Will AI really kill us all?

Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology... Read more »

The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel

Their innovations include a “reprogramming” therapy that reverses vision loss, tiny brain electrodes inspired by Japanese art, and a personalized gene-editing treatment for a baby with a rare genetic disorder. There are... Read more »

Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech

1. Preventing maternal deaths Let’s start with Paschal Kija, a 28-year-old who has developed a device to treat postpartum hemorrhage—a dangerous birth complication that contributes to around 29% of maternal deaths in his... Read more »

The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

That October, the Regalados later testified in court, they received holdings in a little-known digital coin. “Take this to my people for a wealth transfer,” Eli heard God say. Over time, they... Read more »

This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

In addition, not everyone agrees that experiments at those scales will get us to the point where we’re capable of making an “informed decision.”  Wil Burns, a research professor and legal scholar... Read more »

Powering AI is an architecture problem

Asking more from the grid The grid was built around predictable loads: steel mills, refineries, and houses at dinnertime. Different load sizes, same process—drawing power smoothly, misbehaving occasionally, and recovering gracefully. But... Read more »

Can the US battery market untangle from China?

There’s an argument to be made about reducing reliance on any single source of a crucial energy technology. But all this tension raises a broader question for me: How much should countries... Read more »

Healthcare AI’s next test is integration

A prior authorization workflow, for example, may require retrieving clinical documentation through fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) APIs, mapping patient history to payer criteria, identifying missing evidence, generating a submission packet, routing... Read more »