A Chicago-based group of scientists have once again warned the world is closer than ever to human-made destruction by moving the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” up to 85 seconds to midnight.

Quote of the Day: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a renowned Russian writer, explored life's deepest questions. His famous quote ...

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

Is human existence meaningful? If so, what gives life meaning? Or, as some existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre assert, is life inherently meaningless? If so, how does one live and find ...

Is AI on the verge of wiping out humanity? Or does the existential threat come from something — or someone — else? Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images In the weeks following OpenAI’s launch of ...

In the 300,000 years of human existence, there is one mystery that remains definitively unsolved throughout all that time. What happens to us after we die? We certainly have our assortment of ...

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The big thinkers at Aperture discuss the odds of human existence from a cosmic perspective.

In my first reflection on AI and how to live well with AI technology I concluded, based on the recent lecture by Stephen Fry and the new book Nexus by Yuval Harari, that there was a manifest need for ...