The World as You'll Know It
Newsletter / Issue No. 93
The Path to AI Safety Could Be a Crisis
Will the US and China find a way to set AI safety standards? Dan Wang, a longtime student of both countries, thinks the right crisis could be what it takes to bring China to the negotiating table.
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New burial chambers will hold nuclear waste for 100,000 years. Tiny silicon probes are revealing the inner workings of the brain. And new techniques could help us clean up so-called forever chemicals.
Robotics / Feature
AI Breakthroughs In Robotics Won’t Change Your Life Any Time Soon
Advances in AI are leading to glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. As progress inches forward, the question is whether the same techniques that fueled AI’s advances will be enough to get there, or if an entirely new path is required.
By Jamie Condliffe
Technology / Feature
A $10-Billion Plan to Sell Africa's Wind and Sun to Countries 7,000 Miles Away
A deep look at how green hydrogen could capitalize on remote areas of renewable resources and redraw the world's energy map.
By Paul Tullis
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Artificial Intelligence / Feature
One Company's Decision to Put AI Into the Ground
What does it mean to adopt AI? For John Deere it meant hundreds of millions of dollars, a new corporate culture and forever changing the relationship between a farmer and the land.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Robotics / Feature
Robots' final frontier? Taking care of us.
To understand how far robots are from replacing humans, just look at the everyday task of using a fork.
By Clive Thompson