Last October, word began to spread among researchers that the World Health Organization was considering a change to its International Classification of Diseases, a catalog used to standardize disease diagnosis worldwide. In... Read more »

It was a move that capped a dramatic period in Hanna’s professional life. In late 2020, her manager, Timnit Gebru, had been fired from her position as the co-lead of the Ethical... Read more »

Ming Guo, the director of UCLA’s Aging Center, likes this revision for its accuracy—and its potential. “It acknowledges aging and offers the opportunity to think there are things we can improve,” says... Read more »

I know this is going to be a long week for all of you China watchers. New stories seem to be coming out every minute about the 20th Party Congress that started... Read more »

But many people feel extremely uneasy about letting algorithms help to make decisions about whether people live or die, and rightfully so. Read the full story. —Melissa Heikkilä This story is from... Read more »

Scripted bits like this sounded stilted and strange, but as we moved on, with my mother recounting memories and speaking in her own words, “she” sounded far more relaxed and natural.  Still,... Read more »

Let me introduce you to Philip Nitschke, also known as “Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide.”  Nitschke has a curious goal: He wants to “demedicalize” death and make assisted... Read more »

Longtermism sees history differently: as a forward march toward inevitable progress. MacAskill references the past often in What We Owe the Future, but only in the form of case studies on the... Read more »

—Rebecca Ackermann The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 How Xi Jinping became unsurmountableChina’s president demands unwavering loyalty. (BBC)+ His speech to the... Read more »