Gen Z: We must resist the temptation to cheat on everything
Adopting the "cheat on everything" mentality — treating thinking as a burden AI can eliminate — is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.| Freethink
Adopting the "cheat on everything" mentality — treating thinking as a burden AI can eliminate — is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.| Freethink
The 20th century left us with fatalism, defeatism, and a hollowed-out vision of the future. Techno-humanism can restore our belief in progress.| Freethink
Legacy newspapers inflated a handful of complaints into "mass panic" to blunt radio’s rise and defend their influence.| Freethink
Exploring the strange intersection of science, conspiracy, and military secrecy in the decades-long quest for anti-gravity propulsion.| Freethink
Existential anxiety surrounding AI is giving way to more realistic concerns about its potential impact on the workforce and beyond.| Freethink
Real understanding, argues thought leader Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.| Freethink
The Great Progression: 2025-2050, Leyden’s new series of essays and interviews for Freethink Voices, roughs out a new grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive progress, reinvent America, and make a much better world.| Freethink
When you consider the mechanics of integrating AI into the job market, the idea that it will take all our jobs quickly falls apart.| Freethink
“The most important thing that we could be doing today is going and trying to build an AI scientist to build something that is better than we are at understanding complex science.”| Freethink
Decades before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky raised alarms, the computer scientist warned AI could steal jobs and outsmart humans.| Freethink
From the Brooklyn Bridge to the polio vaccine, society once honored signs of progress with parades, fireworks, and festivals.| Freethink
Across history, the human body has been reshaped by discipline, medicine, and now technology — each era redefining peak performance.| Freethink
A lawsuit claiming an AI chatbot caused a teen’s suicide risks sparking a new moral panic, echoing past fears built on distorted evidence.| Freethink
"This is a monumental world historic shift that we're going through, and most people do not understand how big it is and also how fast it's coming very, very soon."| Freethink
Anil Seth suggests the difference is that living beings are rooted in time and entropy, a grounding that may be essential for consciousness.| Freethink
Biotech labs are mining worm chemistry to design medicines that calm the immune system without the risks of live infection.| Freethink
"There are things that Notebook does that are genuinely 10 to 100 times faster."| Freethink
Before completion for the 1889 World’s Fair, the Eiffel Tower project was treated by some as an industrialist "Tower of Babel."| Freethink
From curing rare diseases to extending lifespans, four biotech founders share how AI is rewriting the future of medicine.| Freethink
Join us for interviews with a new generation of bold builders and thinkers. Explore humanity's future through conversations with ambitious technologists who live for progress, think in solutions, and remain curious.| Freethink
Change is hard, but necessary. "Hard Reset" explores rebuilding the world from scratch, reimagining cities, schools, power grids, prisons, money, and the internet. This is about starting over and rethinking everything for a better future.| Freethink
A bold vision of a 10x better future where humanity has mastered biology, energy, and matter to unlock unprecedented progress.| Freethink
The US must regulate AI in a way that protects society, preserves America’s competitive edge, and fosters innovation — all at the same time.| Freethink
Emmett Shear: If we want AI to be on our side, it needs to see its part of the greater whole.| Freethink
Philosopher Jonathan Birch argues that sentience might be essential to “higher” forms of intelligence, including truly intelligent AI.| Freethink
AI could trigger a civilization-scale change for humanity the same way the steam engine helped usher in The Enlightenment 250 years ago.| Freethink
By slashing costs, AI will spark a creative renaissance in the entertainment industry, leading to more working artists, not fewer.| Freethink
An excerpt from "Rad Future: The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How It Will Save the World" by Isabelle Boemeke.| Freethink
AI researcher François Chollet thought we needed a better way to measure progress on the path to AGI — so he made one.| Freethink
America’s new mission isn’t just to invent the new technology of AI. It must invent the systems that then make the most of AI.| Freethink
Biologists are skipping the petri dish and using AI-powered virtual cells to experiment in silico.| Freethink
Bestselling author and Google Labs' Editorial Director Steven Johnson talks about the future of AI at Freethink's Great Progression event.| Freethink
At Freethink, we believe the daily news should inspire people to build a better world. We focus on solutions: the smartest people, the biggest ideas, and the most ground breaking technology shaping our future.| Freethink
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology can empower a patient-led healthcare revolution.| Freethink
The impact of AGI on the economy will be big, it’ll happen fast, and it’ll be disruptive. Here's how the disruption could play out.| Freethink
We sat down with two prominent AI artists to talk about their projects and their quest to create new genres.| Freethink
Advancements in generative art have many human artists on edge. But should they be worried?| Freethink
A copyright lawyer and fair use expert weighs in on the legal implications of these new AI technologies.| Freethink
The explosion of AI into more creative fields has forced us to ask — if artificial intelligence can not just replicate mundane tasks, but creative ones too, what is left that’s uniquely human?| Freethink
