Google engineer says AI bot wants to ‘serve humanity’ but experts dismissive Blake Lemoine claims of sentience for artificial intelligence bot described as ‘ball of confusion’ by Steven Pinker The Guardian - US · Jun 13, 2022
‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history Wengrow and his late co-author David Graeber caused a sensation with their revisionist view of humankind’s development. But then came the attacks… The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2022
Book Review: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Early cities' concentrated populations and burgeoning scale didn't spontaneously summon pharaonic god-kings or bureaucrats. Reason · May 28, 2022
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, Melissa Chen: Bringing Enlightenment Values to the Middle East The co-founders of Ideas Beyond Borders talk about bringing Steven Pinker and John Stuart Mill to an audience dying for them. Reason · May 25, 2022
Commentary: Is humanity doomed? That depends on us Will birth rates doom humanity? Tech billionaire Elon Musk sounded an old alarm in December when he claimed that declining births are “one of the biggest risks to civilization.” Los Angeles Times · Apr 1, 2022