My work as a research physicist taught me the societal value of both basic and applied research as I moved from studying photonic and electrooptic materials to earning patents and founding startup ...

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A universal basic income advocate responds to “Burned-Over Territory.” In his short story “Burned-Over Territory,” Lee Konstantinou delves the tensions between the promise and peril of automation as ...

When I began this thought experiment of writing letters to a world eight decades in the future, I needed a handle on what that meant. So I thought about how different the world was eight decades in ...

A hot potato: It's somewhat concerning that Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, is so concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence on the global jobs market that he's long campaigned ...