Even though most Americans still believe that 25 is the ideal age for women to have children, new research suggests that mother nature disagrees. A mounting stream of…

Automatically produced content written by robots is apparently now viewed as more credible, trustworthy, informative, and objective by the average reader. That’s according to a new study recently…

This year, over 14,000 patients will request a bone marrow transplant that will never arrive. Part of the problem is undoubtedly the fact that only 3% of Americans are signed up as…

George Dvorsky interviews me about why the ‘Three Laws of Robotics’ won’t be sufficient for the development of advanced artificial intelligence.

Nick Bostrom is nominated for Prospect’s 2014 “Top World Thinkers”. Polls are still open and voting takes less than a minute.

“The cumulative probability gives 50% chance for WBE (if it ever arrives) before 2059, with the 25% percentile in 2047 and the 75% percentile in 2074. WBE before…

Forget public schools vs private schools. If I were in high school or middle school again, I would drop out and enroll in Stanford University Online High School. Teaches…

Dozens of billionaires used the same 3 careers to get rich: Investment, Finance, and Tech Startups. Carl Shulman recently looked at which of these three was most represented…

It no longer matters how complex your wifi’s WPA2 password is. It can now easily be decoded by an amateur hacker in about 4 hours. The lesson is: 1)…

Early research indicates that (1) having friends who know about rationality, (2) having a growth mindset, and (3) trying more things seem to be the three keys to benefiting…

“According to a variety of metrics, the amount of AI research being done appears to be about 10% of the amount of computer science (CS) research being done.”