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“We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.
They could also “turn off” their fear.
Gravitational waves carry enormous amounts of energy, but spread out quickly once they leave the source. Could they ever create black holes?
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
When Einstein gave General Relativity to the world, he included an extraneous cosmological constant. How did his ‘biggest blunder’ occur?
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
Look out at a distant object, and you’re not seeing it as it is today. It’s size, brightness, and actual distance are all different.
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.
Elon Musk’s successful bid to take over Twitter has fragmented the internet along predictably partisan lines. But only time will tell whether this is a good or bad thing.
Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
If you’re a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren’t any neutrinos slow?
Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
The book “The Genesis Machine” outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.
Yes, dark energy is real. Yes, distant galaxies recede faster and faster as time goes on. But the expansion rate isn’t accelerating at all.
Did fire change the development of the human brain?
On the menu: stews, cheese, and fermented drinks.
It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not driven by opinion, prejudice, or bias. It’s not unchallengeable. And it’s more than facts alone.
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?
What if your best friend was an informant?