Mexico City is one of the world’s biggest population centers, yet the city’s infrastructure is extremely unstable. The resulting challenges serve as a warning—and a lesson—to the rest of our urbanizing world.
Insight Video: Artificial intelligence is changing lives for the better, but its developers acknowledge that it also poses serious risks. This raises some far-reaching questions.
Increasingly sophisticated and “intelligent” technologies now allow us to alter not only day-to-day life but the planet itself. They also invite abuse—and chaos. What can be done?
Part One: What can we look forward to in a world where artificial intelligence plays a bigger role? What should we be concerned about? An AI expert provides some answers.
Many of the ideas we’ve accepted from a young age are based on flawed thinking or incomplete understanding. In this collection of articles, we look at some of the influential thinkers whose concepts underpin the Western world.
As Israel marks 70 years of statehood, we asked political scientist and peace negotiator Menachem Klein about his nation’s fulfilled expectations, its missed opportunities, and the road to peace.
Why does America’s Christian Right take such an active interest in how we view and use scientific findings—to the point of creating its own version of science?
