In his 2000 bestseller “The Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell told the story of why crime fell in New York City in the 1990s. Now, 25 years...
Here’s a wild stat: nearly one-third of the world’s food production goes to waste each year, a major contributor to the climate crisis. Farmer and UN...
AI is shaping every aspect of our lives — but only a handful of tech giants have a say in what this technology can do. So...
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Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s latest book, “The Anxious Generation,” is shaping cultural conversations and sparking fierce debates about the role of smartphones in society. In this...
We’re nearly halfway through the 2020s, dubbed the most decisive decade for action on climate change. Where exactly do things stand? Climate impact scholar Johan Rockström...
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For AI to achieve its full potential, non-experts need to be let into the development process, says Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and cofounder of Humane Intelligence. She...
In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measures, young people in the US are worse off...
No one truly understands AI, not even experts, says Helen Toner, an AI policy researcher and former board member of OpenAI. But that doesn’t mean we...