Author: Travis Kelly

In July, the U.N. hosted an “AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Good” global summit in Switzerland, featuring a press conference with nine humanoid robots equipped with state-of-the-art AI brains. Human journalists asked them questions directly, and the robots answered, with no help from their human minders, sometimes tilting their realistic heads for emphasis, their eyes blinking...

We live in an era of abundance and security unprecedented in human history, a true Golden Age. Despite the natural disasters, pandemics, wars and political calamities that have afflicted us in the last 100 years, we have achieved what was impossible in all the centuries preceding: food security for the vast majority of the world’s...

Was COVID-19 transmitted from animals to humans, or did well-meaning scientists unleash a Frankenstein virus on the world? Soon after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in February 2020, the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet published a letter signed by 27 public health experts vowing, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting...