The world we wake up to is carefully curated exactly to our interests: not the world as it objectively exists, but one that an algorithm…
Posts published in “Society & Ethics”
Since November 2022, when generative models reached the general public, one question has returned more often than any other: will artificial intelligence take people’s jobs?…
Gene editing with the CRISPR-Cas9 system moved from laboratories into clinical practice in 2023. That year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for…
One viral video shows a prominent politician threatening war, spreading across social media like wildfire and sparking outrage with potentially far-reaching political consequences. But the…
In 2019, an estimated 1.27 million people worldwide died directly because of bacterial resistance to antibiotics — with nearly five million more deaths linked to…
Extraordinary mirror showing not just the present self, but a potential future – an identical copy of you – sounds like the premise for a…
Quiet morning when the first thing after waking up is not checking email or social media, and the void in the head is not immediately…
It takes just a single glance at an old photograph. Wrinkles, gray hair, a smile etched with life’s experiences. We see wisdom in them, but…
Illustrative composite story (fiction inspired by real mechanisms, not an account of a specific case): Imagine a high‑school teacher in a small town who shares…
Even in the 19th century, people feared that new technologies would flood young minds with dangerous illusions and erode their ability to tell fact from fiction.…