There are four ways people try to matter. Transcenders, socializers, heroic strivers, competitors. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein has spent decades mapping them. In this conversation we go through all four, and what happens to them when...

Most people who thought there was a coin-flip chance of human extinction would run from the technology causing it. Emad Mostaque gets up each morning and builds it. Emad Mostaque studied mathematics at Oxford, spent...

A 23-year-old living at his mother’s house, less than a year out of college, started a company with no experience and no plan. Three decades later, that company has 3,000 employees, over $2 billion in...

A company raised 30 million dollars at a 250 million valuation. Nothing strange there, until you learn how. The AI ran its own fundraising. The founder just showed up for signatures. Ben Cera spent years...

What if the cure for a disease already exists inside the data, but nobody is allowed to look at it? Medical records across thousands of hospitals. Genetic data spread across dozens of countries. Research that...

A concrete and positive vision for the future is the scarcest resource in AI right now. Billions of dollars are being poured into capabilities. The number of people working on a credible vision for what...

In 1789, a 21-year-old pretended to be a farmer, boarded a ship to New York, and launched the American Industrial Revolution. Not with blueprints or manuals, but with six years of procedural knowledge locked inside...

There is a question that has separated Nobel Prize winners from scientists who wasted their careers, despite equal talent and equal resources. The question is simple. The answer is uncomfortable. And it applies to every...

The people warning you that AI is too smart have it exactly backwards. The real danger right now is that AI is too stupid, and you have already handed it the keys. Pedro Domingos is...

You probably have someone in your life who, seven years ago, you’d have said sees the world the way you do. Now you look at them and something has fundamentally shifted. The question is: what...