Technology and Mental Wellbeing: Huge Challenges, and the Potential of a Bright Future for the Human Mind
As the brain is essential to our survival, mental wellbeing deserves high ranking in our technological priorities. Threats to the brain’s functioning include heat and climate change, as well as online emotional triggers that polarize opinions and beliefs. When the threats are understood, technology holds great potential to advance the human mind.
Restoring Hope: AI Breakthroughs Transform Lives of Paralyzed Individuals
Discover the remarkable stories of individuals defying paralysis through the transformative power of AI. From brain-computer interfaces restoring speech and movement to neural bypasses reconnecting brains to bodies, these cutting-edge technologies are igniting hope for millions worldwide.
Decrypting Security: How Machine Learning is Boosting Allergy Research and Treatment
Food and environmental allergies have been on the increase for decades. Machine learning is transforming the way we understand and treat allergies, opening up new possibilities for more accurate diagnosis, personalized treatment, and improved patient outcomes.
Bodies of the Future: How AI is Assisting Human Reproduction and Organ Transplantation
Discover how AI-powered innovations are reshaping the future of human reproduction and organ development. From selecting optimal embryos to creating intricate 3D organ-like structures, AI is opening new horizons in medicine and biology.
Editorial Perspectives
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Cybercriminals Target Telescopes, Hospitals, and Libraries: Is This The Way It Has To Be?
The August cyberattack against an important telescope facility brought its operation and the scientific research dependent on it to a halt for two months. It's part of an increasing number of attacks on critical infrastructure that calls for a higher priority on eliminating criminal threats to our technology. Are we sitting ducks? Surely the brain power of 7.8 billion humans can be applied to the essential task of defending ourselves.
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Wikipedia: Let’s Value and Protect a Wealth of Human Knowledge
When so much of human data is indexed by powerful AIs, it's crucial that we preserve the ability to curate our own history and accomplishments. Imagine if Wikipedia, the free repository of human knowledge, were to go dark from lack of contributions? Let's value and preserve the benefits it provides.
Blog
Knowledge is Power: Two Changes to Data Privacy to Protect the Value of Human Data
Neural network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton's resignation from Google so that he can speak his mind freely about AI risks gives reason to reconsider the path of machine learning that we're now on. How much are the machines learning about us, and what are their programmers doing with that knowledge? We propose two changes for privacy policies that protect the value of human data.
In Focus
Next-Gen Crystal Ball? AI Advances Detection of Childhood Blindness, Dementia, and Cancer
Discover a revolutionary era of healthcare with AI-assisted diagnostics that offer future insights like a crystal ball, but with transparency and accountability. The goal is to aid human doctors rather than replace them, leading to a brighter and healthier future for all.
AI Accelerates New Treatments for Diseases But Raises Ethical Issues
Imagine life-saving drug discovery on autopilot, and development of innovative treatments like never before. However, caution is needed as we journey down this road of AI-assisted drug development and ethical concerns emerge, notably with issues of bias and discrimination.
AI Advances The Use of Stem Cells in Personalized Medical Treatment
Explore a revolutionary 3D-printed biocurative stem cell-enriched treatment that speeds healing and offers cost-effective recovery from severe burns and chronic wounds. Biocuratives are one example of the use of regenerative therapies, cellular processes, and AI in precision medicine that are transforming healthcare.
Podcasts and Webcasts
Alec Koumjian and the Asteroid Institute’s Mission to Defend Earth
Dr. Burcin Ikiz on brain health and the effects of climate change
What Would Socrates Say About ChatGPT?
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Major Advances in Quantum Computing Revolution
A quantum computer has just been used to simulate a wormhole, holding potential for future space travel. With recent advances in powerful computing capacity, and the rapid growth of the quantum computing industry, the technology promises many benefits including reduction of pollution and conflict.
Introduction to Quantum Accounting Theory, Part 2
Quantum accounting records the order of the quantum computer’s signals that begin in two states simultaneously and output to two points on the spherical limit of the qubit. The first principle of quantum accounting considers the geometry of the sphere, the time order of signals from present to past and future, and the nature of the quantum as the universal medium of the account.
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In Part 2 of our series, we find that to balance the quantum account, zero must remain in the middle of the qubit sphere, but we face the problem and paradox of locating that point. We conclude the only way to pinpoint the middle is to define – simultaneously – the radius of the debit and credit.
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Technology and Mental Wellbeing: Huge Challenges, and the Potential of a Bright Future for the Human Mind
As the brain is essential to our survival, mental wellbeing deserves high ranking in our technological priorities. Threats to the brain’s functioning include heat and climate change, as well as online emotional triggers that polarize opinions and beliefs. When the threats are understood, technology holds great potential to advance the human mind.
What Are We Training AI to Do With Our Data? A TQR Investigative Report
While AI continues to transform many aspects of human life, the widespread collection, use, and brokering of personal data, driven by advertising and machine learning, pose significant risks that include privacy, foreign influence, and bias. The extent of data collected, often without the user’s knowledge, highlights the need for ethical guidelines and regulatory measures in the development and use of AI.
Ancient Civilizations of The Future: Could Technologies for Preserving Individual Memories Define Us In a Million Years?
As AI becomes ingrained in our lives, we’re compelled to question whether it has the power to supersede our very agency, influencing our decisions, choices, behaviour, and the very fabric of our memories—the vital threads that guide us through life.
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Alan Turing’s skills in mathematics and computer science helped build the “Bombe,” the computing machine that cracked the Nazi Enigma code. The technology was instrumental in the Allied victory over Hitler.
Ancient Astronomy: The Technology of the Golden Hats
With four Golden Hats now unearthed, dating back over 3,000 years, the mysteries remain. What was the purpose of this ancient technology? What was the source of the knowledge, and how was it used? Were they astronomical time calculators, or more?
What Were They Thinking? Future Technology as Imagined in Sci-fi of the 1950s and 1960s
Our 5-part series on sci-fi films of the 1950s and 1960s wraps up with a look at how life on Mars was imagined, and Jane Fonda in the campy sci-fi sex comedy “Barbarella”.
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Restoring Hope: AI Breakthroughs Transform Lives of Paralyzed Individuals
Discover the remarkable stories of individuals defying paralysis through the transformative power of AI. From brain-computer interfaces restoring speech and movement to neural bypasses reconnecting brains to bodies, these cutting-edge technologies are igniting hope for millions worldwide.
Decrypting Security: How Machine Learning is Boosting Allergy Research and Treatment
Food and environmental allergies have been on the increase for decades. Machine learning is transforming the way we understand and treat allergies, opening up new possibilities for more accurate diagnosis, personalized treatment, and improved patient outcomes.
Bodies of the Future: How AI is Assisting Human Reproduction and Organ Transplantation
Discover how AI-powered innovations are reshaping the future of human reproduction and organ development. From selecting optimal embryos to creating intricate 3D organ-like structures, AI is opening new horizons in medicine and biology.