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Health
This Gorilla’s Caregivers Face Familiar Questions About Aging
Winston, an older silverback, is getting enviable medical treatment. Now his keepers must confront an issue that vexes doctors and…
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World
Should A.I. Accelerate? Decelerate? The Answer Is Both.
The near-implosion of OpenAI, a world leader in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, surfaced a conflict within the organization…
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Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.
The lament is as old as education itself: The students aren’t paying attention. But today, the problem of flighty or…
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World
As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits
Worried about the risks of robot warfare, some countries want new legal constraints, but the U.S. and other major powers…
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World
Who Is Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s Interim Chief Executive?
The former chief executive of Twitch has embraced “A.I. doomerism,” the fear that artificial intelligence could cause the end of…
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Food
Review: A ‘Jungle Book’ With the Climate Crisis on Its Mind
The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun.
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World
North American Birds Will No Longer Be Named for Racists — or Anybody Else
On Nov. 1, the American Ornithological Society announced that it would be renaming all the birds under its purview that…
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World
Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy?
I’ve moved back to the United States twice since my birth. Once as a child, after the Iraqi invasion of…
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Food
Are Fears of A.I. and Nuclear Apocalypse Keeping You Up? Blame Prometheus.
How an ancient Greek myth explains our terrifying modern reality.
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Magazine
Uncanny Art for the Post-Truth Era
As deepfakes and A.I. images proliferate, hyperrealist sculpture has taken on an eerie new relevance.
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