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What is unique about AI is also what is most feared and celebrated: its ability to match some of our own skills, and then to go further, accomplishing what humans cannot. Yet behind every advance in machine learning are, in fact, people—both the ofte

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO This month I spoke with Patrick Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, our presenting sponsor, who is committed to scaling the accessibility of AI. Read highlights from our conversation about what’s next in AI below. We’ve been talking about A

Five U.S. citizens released from captivity in Iran reunite with loved ones at Fort Belvoir, Va., on Sept. 19. President Joe Biden announced the prisoner swap to free the Americans—Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi, Morad Tahbaz, and two others not identifie

The National Museum of the American Latino doesn’t even have a building yet, but its work is already controversial. For the past two years, historians had been working on an exhibit about the history of Latino youth movements. But after pushback from

Last September, eight radio-collared cheetahs made the 5,000- mile-long journey from Namibia to Kuno National Park in India. Their arrival marked the final phase of a 13-year-long effort called Project Cheetah, which aims to reintroduce the big cat s

The number of children living in poverty in the U.S. more than doubled in 2022, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12, the biggest increase since it began using its current method to count them. In 2021, 5.2% of chil

Under pressure from hard-right members, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Sept. 12 over his family’s business dealings, despite an absence of evidence that Biden profited from them. The inquiry wil

Big Tech had a tough year, laying off tens of thousands of workers since January. But the biggest tech companies are also the ones doing best for investors, employees, and the planet. Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet (the company that owns Google), and Met

Thirty years later, Liz Helms still remembers the way her doctor looked at her when she described the severe pain she was experiencing around her jaw—the limited facial movement and frequent muscle spasms, and feeling like she was being struck by lig

The real czars may be long gone, but for decades, the White House has been keeping the honorific alive, appointing a director to oversee a task or issue, and bestowing the title along with it. We’ve had the Ebola czar, the drug czar, the budget czar,

Alex Vegas Díaz was surprised to find himself sleeping next to Russian soldiers in a trench in Ukraine, more than 6,000 miles from home. In his telling, the 19-year-old Cuban accepted an offer posted on WhatsApp to make good money doing “construction

Two people embrace atop rubble in Derna, Libya, on Sept. 13, two days after a burst dam loosed a wall of water 20 ft. high into the coastal city of 100,000. The U.N. estimated at least 4,000 people died and more than 9,000 were missing as of Sept. 18

As siblings go, Dario and Daniela Amodei agree more than most. “Since we were kids, we’ve always felt very aligned,” Daniela says. Alignment is top of mind for the brother-and-sister duo at the helm of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI labs. I

At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial-intelligence researcher who had co-founded a company named DeepMind that sought to design computers that could learn how to think like humans. “Elon and I h

When the Biden White House was tasked with responding to the rapid changes in generative AI last year, Alondra Nelson led the charge. As the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Nelson oversaw the release of the

Over the course of February, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the most influential AI researchers of the past 50 years, had a “slow eureka moment.” Hinton, 76, has spent his career trying to build AI systems that model the human brain, mostly in academia befo

Ted Chiang is perhaps the world’s most celebrated living science-fiction author. His short, carefully hewn stories explore how our inner worlds and our societies would react to unexpected rifts in the fabric of science. How would it feel to receive a

Martin Scorsese is wearing a blue shirt. It’s a nothing-special medium-dark blue, at least as it’s backlit by the afternoon sun streaming through the window. But later, in the crisp-soft light of the screening room located in his office, it becomes a

In 2019, a devastating news story ricocheted around the digital-media echo chamber. As one headline summarized it: “American Woman Accused of Letting Hundreds of Ugandan Kids Die at a Fake Clinic.” Her name was Renée Bach, and she faced a lawsuit on

My 15-year-old daughter and I recently went back to the beginning of The Great British Baking Show, and the technical abilities of the contestants seems like it’s just increased so much. I think it’s reflected in the handshakes [bakers get for stella

Success doesn’t look the same for novelist Jessica Knoll as it did five years ago. In 2018, the Luckiest Girl Alive author raised both cheers and eyebrows when she wrote an op-ed for the New York Times titled “I Want to Be Rich and I’m Not Sorry.” Th