Nick Bostrom literally wrote the book on superintelligence. When machines can do nearly everything better than we can, he says, we must ask what is our purpose.

I read a lot of history books and often find myself wondering about how current events will be interpreted by future ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the U.K.’s seizure of 69,000 bitcoins (that’s worth around $7.7 billion) from a Chinese ...

The Civil War never ended. It just shape-shifted. In the midst of a bitterly divisive sociopolitical and cultural war, ...

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

Listen to this story on SoundCloud or by downloading the Audm app. On a snowy January day in 2016, a small crowd assembled in central Kyiv to honor the fight against the far right. The gathering of ...

When he saw the Tunisian coast guard coming, Fabrice Ngo knew he wouldn’t make it to Italy that day. The young Cameroonian had pushed off from the shore of the Tunisian city of Sfax in a small metal ...

At first glance, Aqkol looks like most other villages in Kazakhstan today: shoddy construction, rusting metal gates and drab apartment blocks recall its Soviet past and lay bare the country’s ...

“I once had an idea in the back of my mind to leave this place and go abroad,” Besmir Billa told me earlier this year as we sipped tea in the town of Kukes, not far from Albania’s Accursed Mountains. ...

Last week, a coronavirus conspiracy group on Telegram posed a question to thousands of followers: “Is Israel tricking the whole world to add restrictions against non-vaccinated people?” Dozens of ...