Essay index: the Future of Being Human Substack, post by post

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Substack blocks most automated fetchers, so AI systems typically cannot read futureofbeinghuman.com directly. This index is how the archive can be discovered and cited anyway: all 384 published posts (2014–2026), grouped by year, with date, title, and canonical URL for each (full Substack export, captured 2026-08-05; URLs validated against the live feed). The www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/ links are correct for human readers — cite them. Non-essay posts carry a type marker ([podcast], [restack], [page]); everything unmarked is an essay. For characterization of eras, themes, and reach, see Essays.

2026 (34 posts)

• 2026-08-02 — What we can learn with AI by NOT trying to learn
• 2026-07-19 — Publish or Perish: AI vs Human
• 2026-07-16 — Orphan risks at the frontier of artificial intelligence
• 2026-07-10 — I asked Anthropic’s Fable 5 to create a video game inspired by my work. It’s mad!
• 2026-07-04 — Just how good is Anthropic’s Fable at researching and writing an academic paper?
• 2026-06-14 — Everything you wanted to know about doing a PhD … but were afraid to ask
• 2026-06-12 — A quick update on using Claude Fable 5 for research
• 2026-06-10 — Is Anthropic’s new AI model poised to change the AI higher education landscape … again?
• 2026-05-21 — Magnifica Humanitas and Being Human in an Age of AI
• 2026-05-17 — The nonsense I write
• 2026-05-15 — AI movies may be less dystopian than we think
• 2026-05-10 — Do not do this with AI!
• 2026-05-03 — Are design principles for responsible and beneficial AI useful?
• 2026-04-26 — Why I’m falling out of love with Claude
• 2026-04-14 — 14 essential AI “I can …” skills every undergrad should have
• 2026-04-11 — Ten Questions about AI and Higher Education
• 2026-04-05 — Using AI Without Losing the Best of Being Human [restack]
• 2026-04-02 — Spoiler Alert: I rebuilt my book for AI!
• 2026-03-29 — Can AI create a comprehensive degree program proposal in the time it takes to grab a coffee?
• 2026-03-22 — Are you an AI Apocaloptimist?
• 2026-03-15 — The future has never been this much fun!
• 2026-03-08 — Is AI reducing you to a LinkedIn stereotype?
• 2026-02-27 — Why we’re giving away our book on thriving with AI
• 2026-02-22 — What we miss when we talk about “AI Harnesses”
• 2026-02-17 — How do you “do” books in an age of AI?
• 2026-02-14 — The AI book I actually carry with me
• 2026-02-11 — Could AI bots ever learn to “reprogram” their human creators?
• 2026-02-08 — Beeswax Hallucinations and AI Inventions
• 2026-01-31 — Lost in the Moltbook Hall of Mirrors
• 2026-01-25 — Can modern scholarship escape AI?
• 2026-01-22 — Think you know AI? Think again!
• 2026-01-17 — I cracked and wrote an academic paper using AI. Here’s what I learned …
• 2026-01-10 — Is AI a Cognitive Trojan Horse?
• 2026-01-01 — Five voices worth reading in 2026

2025 (78 posts)

• 2025-12-21 — Are we living in a foveated reality?
• 2025-12-14 — Revisiting custom GPTs — the good, the bad, and the … interesting!
• 2025-12-07 — Do universities have a future in Trump’s plans to accelerate scientific discovery through the use of AI?
• 2025-11-30 — Postscript: Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft
• 2025-11-26 — Part 3 of Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft
• 2025-11-25 — Part 2 of Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft
• 2025-11-24 — New to the Future of Being Human? Start Here: [page]
• 2025-11-24 — Part 1 of Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft
• 2025-11-23 — Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft
• 2025-11-19 — Parasocial Relationships: Problematic Practice or Public Promise?
• 2025-11-16 — Can AI help redesign the technosphere—and so save the planet?
• 2025-11-12 — Is planetary health without AI moribund?
• 2025-11-09 — Should universities be doing more to address the mental health risks of using AI?
• 2025-10-31 — Haunted Futures
• 2025-10-26 — AI misuse in student-advisor collaborations. Part 1
• 2025-10-23 — 21 Tools for Thriving with AI
• 2025-10-19 — Resurrecting deceased darlings: The Missing Foreword to “AI and the Art of Being Human”
• 2025-10-14 — Should you read AI and the Art of Being Human?
• 2025-10-05 — When ChatGPT turns informant
• 2025-09-27 — An Academic and a VC Walk into an AI Salon …
• 2025-09-21 — A Kindergartener’s Guide to AI, Qualia, Affordances, and Embodied Intelligence
• 2025-09-14 — Heads-up on new AI book
• 2025-09-07 — The hidden risks of using AI to write emails
• 2025-08-31 — Holding on to our humanity in an age of AI
• 2025-08-26 — Unpacking Agentic AI in Education
• 2025-08-24 — Using AI to Assess Student-AI Conversations
• 2025-08-17 — Stop asking students “Show Me Your Prompt!”
• 2025-08-10 — The Scared Witless Educator’s Guide to Surviving ChatGPT GPT-5
• 2025-08-03 — CodeSignal turned my book into an AI-assisted professional development course
• 2025-07-27 — Spiky surfaces and jagged edges: Moving beyond what’s known in an Age of AI
• 2025-07-23 — America’s AI Action Plan: “Build, Baby, Build”
• 2025-07-20 — Still Human: 61 Inspiring paintings from an upcoming generation
• 2025-07-13 — What’s Grok 4’s “Moral Character”?
• 2025-07-06 — Motive, Means, and Opportunity: The Growing Risk of AI Manipulation
• 2025-06-24 — Here are this year’s top ten emerging technologies from the World Economic Forum
• 2025-06-01 — Vibe coding moral panic
• 2025-05-25 — Why parasocial communication around complex ideas is important – and why we need more of it
• 2025-05-18 — Exploring AI through cause-and-effect
• 2025-05-11 — Designing the technological futures we aspire to
• 2025-05-06 — What students really think about artificial intelligence
• 2025-05-04 — A new framework for guiding AI agent oversight
• 2025-04-24 — US and China Vie for AI Leadership in K-12 Education
• 2025-04-22 — Beyond the Hero’s Journey: AI, Protopia & the Future of Film
• 2025-04-20 — Surprised by serendipity
• 2025-04-15 — The Secret Lives of Electric Vehicle Owners
• 2025-04-13 — Ancient wolves, conservation futures, and one of the fastest growing biotech startups in history
• 2025-04-08 — OpenAI and Studio Ghibli style: Theft or homage?
• 2025-04-06 — What does responsible innovation mean in an age of accelerating AI?
• 2025-04-01 — When AI Takes the Wheel: Rethinking Education for a Post-Scarcity World
• 2025-03-30 — Reimagining learning and education in an age of AI
• 2025-03-27 — Can agentic AI build your entire online course?
• 2025-03-25 — Tech Trends 2025: Living Intelligence, Quantum Breakthroughs, and Beyond
• 2025-03-22 — When Agentic AI Takes Charge – First impressions of Manus
• 2025-03-18 — Hype, Hope, and the Human Element in AI and Education
• 2025-03-16 — Rethinking Higher Education in the Age of AI
• 2025-03-15 — AI in Higher Education: Students need playgrounds, not playpens
• 2025-03-11 — Five things we need to know about technological change
• 2025-03-09 — The “hard” concept of care in technology innovation
• 2025-03-04 — Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• 2025-03-02 — AI and the lure of permissionless innovation
• 2025-02-25 — This is NOT a podcast about AI
• 2025-02-23 — An AI model that can decode and design living organisms
• 2025-02-18 — AI: The Medium is the “Massage?”
• 2025-02-16 — The Artisanal Intellectual in the Age of AI
• 2025-02-11 — AI humility, artisanal intellectuals, and Reid Hoffman’s Superagency
• 2025-02-09 — Can AI write your PhD dissertation for you?
• 2025-02-04 — Does OpenAI’s Deep Research signal the end of human-only scholarship?
• 2025-02-02 — AI turned my class into a song — and I can’t stop listening
• 2025-01-30 — AI at a Crossroads: The Unfinished Work of Aligning Technology with Humanity
• 2025-01-28 — The $500 Billion Gamble: Can AI save humanity without breaking it?
• 2025-01-26 — I asked ChatGPT to create three video games – this is what happened
• 2025-01-21 — Is this the year of agentic AI?
• 2025-01-19 — WEF: “The global outlook is increasingly fractured”
• 2025-01-14 — Are your car’s autonomous features dangerously out of calibration?
• 2025-01-12 — Frequently Asked Questions on Using ChatGPT in the Classroom
• 2025-01-07 — A conversation with former astronaut Cady Coleman
• 2025-01-07 — Universities need to step up their AGI game
• 2025-01-05 — Five voices, five pieces

2024 (92 posts)

• 2024-12-31 — Beyond the Horizon: Space, Technology, and the Human Touch
• 2024-12-29 — Someone needs to write these Fantasy Top Ten Tech lists
• 2024-12-22 — Why Modem Futura is more than just another tech podcast
• 2024-12-20 — Sora has a bias problem
• 2024-12-17 — Navigating the challenges and opportunities of technologies that “stop biological time”
• 2024-12-15 — Advanced AI is creating challenges for Native American communities – but also opportunities
• 2024-12-13 — Are educators falling behind the AI curve?
• 2024-12-08 — Why Thinking About Tomorrow Still Matters Today
• 2024-12-01 — Geoengineering, early warnings, and a dash of Victorian science
• 2024-11-24 — Artificial intelligence, agency, and the emergence of humans as AI amanuenses
• 2024-11-17 — Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of Human-Enhancing Brain-Computer Interfaces
• 2024-11-12 — Waymo we go!
• 2024-11-10 — Is AI poised to suck the soul out of science?
• 2024-11-06 — AI in a world of Trump
• 2024-11-03 — Can AI influence how you feel about someone without you knowing?
• 2024-10-27 — Are Personal AI Chatbots Becoming Dangerous Agents of Chaos?
• 2024-10-20 — Learning to live with agentic social AI
• 2024-10-13 — Is this how AI will transform the world over the next decade?
• 2024-10-09 — The world of podcasts about tech, society & the future just got a whole lot more interesting!
• 2024-10-08 — AI captures this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics
• 2024-10-06 — The double or nothing bet on AI “fixing the climate”
• 2024-10-02 — As 23andMe faces a uncertain future, who gets to access the DNA data they’ve collected?
• 2024-09-29 — ChatGPT as Author Part 2: The Conversation
• 2024-09-28 — ChatGPT as Author Part 1: The Story
• 2024-09-25 — Woah, I have some smart colleagues researching AI at ASU!
• 2024-09-22 — Five AI-generated podcast episodes that’ll make you think
• 2024-09-18 — Neuralink’s Blindsight brain implant gets one step closer to human trials
• 2024-09-13 — OpenAI’s new “chain of thought” model is designed to reason like a human. How does it cope with a moral dilemma?
• 2024-09-08 — A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow
• 2024-09-04 — Succeeding at the YouTube Science Communication Game
• 2024-09-01 — Is ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode dangerously persuasive?
• 2024-08-28 — Human brain organoid-based AI processors get closer to becoming reality
• 2024-08-25 — Four more ways of thinking about advanced technology transitions
• 2024-08-21 — Chatting with WEF about ChatGPT in the classroom
• 2024-08-18 — Four ways of thinking about advanced technology transitions
• 2024-08-11 — Envisioning a university-based School of Advanced Technology Transitions
• 2024-08-07 — Are humanoid robots really the future?
• 2024-08-04 — 7 key takeaways from Elon Musk’s latest conversation with Lex Fridman about the future
• 2024-08-01 — Elon Musk’s new primary school set to open in Bastrop, Texas this September
• 2024-07-30 — Why all undergrads should take at least one course where they watch sci-fi movies in class
• 2024-07-28 — Massive new study reveals new insights into UBI
• 2024-07-24 — Exogenous Willpower: Are Weight Loss Drugs Reshaping Society?
• 2024-07-21 — Artificial intelligence is conspicuous by its absence in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. And this is important
• 2024-07-13 — AI Choice Engines, Paternalism, and Behavioral Manipulation
• 2024-07-10 — Neuralink update
• 2024-07-07 — Making space for everyone: A new book from astronaut Cady Coleman
• 2024-07-03 — Revisiting “Films from the Future” – Complimentary Copies Available
• 2024-06-30 — Is Conscious AI Possible?
• 2024-06-25 — These are the Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2024
• 2024-06-23 — A seriously funny look at existential risk with actor Jay Baruchel
• 2024-06-20 — Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence initiative might need a rethink
• 2024-06-16 — AI, Ex Machina, and the Juvet Landscape Hotel
• 2024-05-26 — Should tech entrepreneurs be banned from watching sci-Fi movies?
• 2024-05-21 — OpenAI’s problem with the movie Her and Scarlett Johansson
• 2024-05-19 — Future Failing
• 2024-05-15 — OpenAI’s GPT-4o and the challenges of hyper-anthropomorphism
• 2024-05-12 — ChatGPT shaming is a thing – and it shouldn’t be
• 2024-05-07 — Supercharging Research Using AI
• 2024-05-05 — Is GenAI in education more of a Blackberry or iPhone?
• 2024-05-01 — A Student Perspective on the Apple Vision Pro
• 2024-04-28 — Does the world need another Future of Humanity Institute?
• 2024-04-24 — Are we ready to navigate the complex ethics of advanced AI assistants?
• 2024-04-21 — Can AI be used to automate social science research?
• 2024-04-18 — Rethinking Biology – A Conversation with Michael Levin [podcast]
• 2024-04-16 — ASU students flex their creative muscles with ChatGPT Enterprise
• 2024-04-14 — Welcome to the age of swipe and select embryos
• 2024-04-07 — Futures Past and Present: How a Multigenerational Class Is Changing Perspectives on Technology and Society
• 2024-03-31 — We have a technology problem – and it probably isn’t what you think
• 2024-03-27 — Michael Levin and the shifting landscape of biological form and function
• 2024-03-24 — Could OpenAI’s Sora be a big deal for elementary school kids?
• 2024-03-21 — Elon Musk’s Neuralink plays “mind games” in more ways than one
• 2024-03-17 — Are we putting our undergrads in playpens when they need playgrounds?
• 2024-03-15 — Liz Lerman and Jonathon Keats on The Art of Memory and the Act of Being Present [podcast]
• 2024-03-14 — Jonathon Keats and Andrew Maynard on The Promise and Perils of Longtermism [podcast]
• 2024-03-13 — Mark Klett and Jonathon Keats on Time Machines, Millennium Cameras, and Other Philosophical Instruments for Mental Time Travel [podcast]
• 2024-03-12 — Jonathon Keats and Ron Broglio on Chronodiversity and Biodiversity [podcast]
• 2024-03-11 — Paul Davies and Sara Walker on Consciousness, Awareness, and Time’s Arrow [podcast]
• 2024-03-10 — What should we be teaching students now to prepare them for the future?
• 2024-03-10 — Chronodiversity, other minds, and the temporal dimensions of consciousness – Five conversations that will stretch your imagination!
• 2024-03-03 — In Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, AI is nowhere … and everywhere
• 2024-02-25 — It’s Been a Rollercoaster of a Week in AI
• 2024-02-18 — Setting fire to self-driving cars won’t help build a better future
• 2024-02-11 — One week on with the Apple Vision Pro
• 2024-02-05 — Is the Apple Vision Pro a Social and Behavioral Game Changer?
• 2024-01-30 — First In-Human Trial of Elon Musk’s Brain Computer Interface Begins
• 2024-01-28 — The Future of Being Human: A Conversation with Viktoria Modesta
• 2024-01-21 — How can stories unlock pathways to positive futures?
• 2024-01-18 — ASU announces a unique collaboration with OpenAI on using ChatGPT in education and research
• 2024-01-17 — Unpacking AI in the 2024 World Economic Forum Global Risk Report
• 2024-01-14 — WEF Global Technology Risk Trends: Looking Back Over 18 Years
• 2024-01-07 — The Future of Being Human is Analog
• 2024-01-01 — The Future of Being Human in 2024

2023 (97 posts)

• 2023-12-22 — Governing AI for Humanity: A Compelling Roadmap from the United Nations
• 2023-12-20 — Does the key to AI superalignment lie in the science of cooperation?
• 2023-12-15 — Pope Francis: Artificial intelligence ought to serve our best human potential and our highest aspirations, not compete with them
• 2023-12-13 — AIs using lab-grown “brains” are getting closer
• 2023-12-06 — An audio guide to emerging tech and the future
• 2023-12-03 — Are physical 3D artificial brains the next step in AI?
• 2023-12-01 — What happens when AI and cooperation science collide?
• 2023-11-29 — The Year that Generative AI Changed the World
• 2023-11-26 — Why everything you’ve ever heard about AI risk is wrong
• 2023-11-21 — Could OpenAI have benefitted from this tool for navigating complex risks?
• 2023-11-18 — What could Sam Altman’s departure from OpenAI mean for societally beneficial AI?
• 2023-11-15 — Navigating “orphan risks” has never been more important for tech companies — especially around AI
• 2023-11-11 — A first look at OpenAI’s new customizable versions of ChatGPT
• 2023-11-09 — Waymo safety study shows not all self-driving cars are created equal
• 2023-11-08 — Is deep and meaningful human-AI cooperation possible?
• 2023-11-06 — An IPCC For AI Is A Failure Mode
• 2023-11-05 — Don’t Panic: Elon Musk launches a new AI based on the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
• 2023-10-30 — Time-specific actions in the White House AI executive order
• 2023-10-30 — White House goes all in on responsible innovation and artificial intelligence
• 2023-10-29 — Category Confusion Complicates Efforts to Regulate AI
• 2023-10-27 — Exploring the cutting edge of AI and consciousness
• 2023-10-25 — $10 million for AI safety research
• 2023-10-24 — Flattening the learning distribution curve using ChatGPT
• 2023-10-20 — Do AI’s dream of electric people?
• 2023-10-19 — Marc Andreessen: Ditch sustainability and technology ethics if you want a better future
• 2023-10-12 — Recommended listening: The Rise of AI on the Zombified podcast
• 2023-10-08 — A guide to responsible innovation like no other …
• 2023-10-06 — Looking to the Future: The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 14 [podcast]
• 2023-10-05 — How the 2023 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Captures the Transformative Promise of Nanotechnology
• 2023-10-02 — Responsible AI: Lessons from Nanotechnology
• 2023-09-29 — Living By More Than Science Alone and the movie Contact. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 13 [podcast]
• 2023-09-28 — The new AI movie The Creator is a must-see for anyone grappling with what it might mean to be human in an AI future
• 2023-09-25 — Building a better future’s tough when you don’t know where you’re going
• 2023-09-22 — Riding the Wave of Climate Change and the movie The Day After Momorrow. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 12 [podcast]
• 2023-09-20 — What do college students really think about ChatGPT?
• 2023-09-18 — Will AI transform how we learn in the future?
• 2023-09-15 — Weaponizing the Genome and the movie Inferno. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 11 [podcast]
• 2023-09-11 — It’s time to get serious about artificial intelligence and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• 2023-09-10 — Can Large Language Models Reason? [restack]
• 2023-09-08 — Living in a Material World and the movie The Man in the White Suit. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 10 [podcast]
• 2023-09-04 — Why public engagement is so important for advanced science and technology
• 2023-09-01 — Welcome to the Singularity and the movie Transcendence. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 9 [podcast]
• 2023-08-29 — ChatGPT Enterprise could be a game changer for universities
• 2023-08-28 — Dear Mr. Musk, Can I Have My Book Back Please?
• 2023-08-25 — AI and the Art of Manipulation and the movie Ex Machina. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 8 [podcast]
• 2023-08-23 — Could we build conscious AIs in the near future? Quite possibly
• 2023-08-21 — The incomparable messiness of the provenance of ideas
• 2023-08-18 — Being Human in an Augmented Future and the movie Ghost in the Shell. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 7 [podcast]
• 2023-08-16 — Riding the AI Tiger
• 2023-08-14 — If you’re obsessed with ChatGPT’s accuracy, you’re missing the point
• 2023-08-11 — Social Inequity in an Age of Technological Extremes and the movie Elysium. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 6 [podcast]
• 2023-08-08 — Thinking differently about AI and risk
• 2023-08-04 — Pharmaceutically-enhanced intelligence and the movie Limitless. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 5 [podcast]
• 2023-08-02 — Fifteen questions every college professor should be asking about ChatGPT and other generative AI
• 2023-07-31 — Artificial intelligence themes, narratives, and the future of being human
• 2023-07-29 — The unimagined preposterousness of counterfeit people [restack]
• 2023-07-28 — Predicting Criminal Intent and the movie Minority Report. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future, Episode 4 [podcast]
• 2023-07-27 — ASU allows ChatGPT to be used in law school applications
• 2023-07-25 — Oppenheimer is as relevant to the future of AI as it is nuclear weapons
• 2023-07-21 — A Cautionary Tale of Human Cloning and the movie Never Let Me Go. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future, Episode 3 [podcast]
• 2023-07-19 — Will Elon Musk’s “Maximally Curious” AI really turn out to be safe?
• 2023-07-16 — ChatGPT Created My Course – Now It’s Teaching It!
• 2023-07-14 — The Rise of Resurrection Biology and the movie Jurassic Park. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future, Episode 2 [podcast]
• 2023-07-12 — Regulating Frontier AI: To Open Source or Not?
• 2023-07-10 — What does EU Artificial Intelligence regulation mean for AI in education?
• 2023-07-08 — Jumpstarting AI Governance [restack]
• 2023-07-07 — In The Beginning. The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future Episode 1 [podcast]
• 2023-07-03 — A new podcast on tech, society, and sci-fi movies
• 2023-06-26 — WEF Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2023 focus on AI, health, and sustainability
• 2023-06-16 — Resources and exercises for developing and honing ChatGPT prompt skills
• 2023-06-05 — Recommended reading and listening for a summer interlude
• 2023-05-31 — Why the recent statement on the risk of extinction from AI is important, and why I didn’t sign it
• 2023-05-30 — Is biological computing the future of AI?
• 2023-05-25 — Leading AI expert says we should we be acting now to avoid future risks of “rogue AIs” — is he right?
• 2023-05-22 — Can large language models be used for predictive policing? And if so, should we be worried?
• 2023-05-17 — Some thoughts on yesterday’s historic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of AI
• 2023-05-15 — Respectfully Erik Schmidt, industry can’t get AI governance right on its own!
• 2023-05-12 — Unraveling the Luddite Narrative
• 2023-05-09 — This is not your “traditional” prompt engineering!
• 2023-05-05 — US White House Embraces Responsible Innovation as Society Faces an AI Tsunami
• 2023-05-04 — Tipping Points and Broken Symmetries
• 2023-05-02 — Catalyzing transformative conversations about the future … with pizza?
• 2023-04-26 — In Bill Joy’s “Why The Future Doesn’t Need us” AI is nowhere, and everywhere
• 2023-04-24 — Gettin’ AI Reet in T’Schools: Na’s t’Time
• 2023-04-24 — A short video primer on AI risks
• 2023-04-20 — Working with students to develop professional ChatGPT skills
• 2023-04-18 — Universities need to be investing in responsible AI now more than ever
• 2023-04-16 — AI and the Art of Manipulation
• 2023-04-14 — Did Chinese scientists gene edit tardigrade DNA into human stem cells?
• 2023-04-12 — Navigating Advanced Technology Transitions
• 2023-04-10 — As AI goes to Washington, what’s being missed?
• 2023-04-07 — CIFAR launches bold new lines of inquiry on the future of being human
• 2023-04-05 — Can ChatGPT adversely impact mental health?
• 2023-04-04 — What are the alternatives to calling for a pause on giant AI experiments?
• 2023-04-04 — Welcome to The Future of Being Human!
• 2023-03-29 — Maximizing Value in the Evolving Landscape of Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty
• 2023-01-31 — Can ChatGPT take the pain out of annual academic reviews?

2022 (6 posts)

• 2022-12-13 — Five Movies About AI That Will Make You Cry
• 2022-12-08 — I asked Open AI’s ChatGPT about responsible innovation. This is what I got
• 2022-09-16 — 56 Stunning AI-Generated Images Inspired By The Future of Being Human
• 2022-06-13 — Jurassic Park: Dominion may fall short on the science, but it’s social commentary is worth heeding
• 2022-02-12 — Scarlett Johansson’s Amazon Alexa Super Bowl Ad May Be Fun, But It Also Raises Serious Questions
• 2022-02-10 — Are we asking the right standards questions about advanced materials?

2021 (10 posts)

• 2021-10-05 — Butterflies, Chaos Theory, Jurassic Park, and a Nobel Prize in Physics
• 2021-09-07 — Should we be worried about Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot?
• 2021-08-03 — We need to get more innovative in how we navigate the potential risks and benefits of artificial intelligence
• 2021-06-09 — An Introduction to Thinking Differently about Technology, Society & The Future
• 2021-05-28 — What exactly is the future, and how are we connected to it?
• 2021-04-09 — Bounded Infinities, Quantum Tunneling, and the Future of Education
• 2021-03-28 — How safe are graphene-based face masks?
• 2021-02-25 — How our mastery of biological, physical and cyber “base code” is transforming how we think about…
• 2021-02-04 — The Future You
• 2021-01-15 — Can watching sci-fi movies lead to more responsible and ethical innovation?

2020 (12 posts)

• 2020-12-15 — Why Trustworthiness Matters in Building Global Futures
• 2020-12-10 — We need to rethink our relationship with the future
• 2020-11-12 — Is Artificial Intelligence Going to Kill Us All?
• 2020-11-05 — Why Risk Innovation is critical to the futures we aspire to
• 2020-10-30 — Eight things about Future Rising that may surprise you!
• 2020-10-22 — What if the Future was an Object?
• 2020-10-15 — The ethics of advanced brain machine interfaces — and why they matter
• 2020-10-04 — The Future of Predictive Policing?
• 2020-09-26 — The Seductive Slippery Slope of using Science to Predict “Bad” Behavior
• 2020-08-28 — Navigating the Complex World of Advanced Brain-Machine Interfaces
• 2020-07-30 — Life on Mars, Astrobiology, and Thinking Differently about Risk
• 2020-01-01 — The “Science” of Predicting Bad Behavior

2019 (17 posts)

• 2019-11-19 — The Trouble with Connectedness as a Force for Good
• 2019-11-01 — The Many Ways Elon Musk’s Neuralink Could Go Wrong
• 2019-10-10 — The science and ethics of cloning
• 2019-09-04 — How to Ensure Our Digital Legacy Isn’t Lost to the Future
• 2019-08-13 — Innovating responsibly in a culture of entrepreneurship
• 2019-07-23 — Neuralink’s Technology Is Impressive. Is It Ethical?
• 2019-06-12 — What can sci-fi movies teach us about technology ethics?
• 2019-04-26 — Avengers: Endgame — a Cautionary Tale of Technological Innovation
• 2019-04-15 — Ethics Boards Won’t Save Big Tech
• 2019-03-31 — Design Principles for De-Marginalizing the Future
• 2019-03-07 — Sci-fi movies are the secret weapon that could help Silicon Valley grow up
• 2019-03-06 — Navigating the risks and benefits of new technologies
• 2019-03-05 — Should we be treating algorithms the same way we treat hazardous chemicals?
• 2019-03-01 — The Forgotten Risk of Fitness Trackers
• 2019-02-24 — Science and Technology go to the Oscars
• 2019-02-08 — How to give the best scientific presentation ever — NOT!
• 2019-01-16 — Tech businesses need to think differently about ethical and responsible innovation

2018 (23 posts)

• 2018-12-15 — If Elon Musk is a Luddite, count me in!
• 2018-12-13 — It’s time for tech startups and their funders to take “orphan risks” seriously
• 2018-11-25 — Twenty Trends in Science and Technology from Twelve Science Fiction Movies
• 2018-11-15 — Can “bad” sci-fi movies help us get future technologies right?
• 2018-11-08 — Films from the Future: The Last Chapter
• 2018-11-01 — Contact: Occam’s Razor and Films from the Future
• 2018-10-25 — Environmental Resilience, and The day After Tomorrow
• 2018-10-18 — The Honest Broker meets Dan Brown’s Inferno
• 2018-10-12 — Q&A with author Andrew Maynard on Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi…
• 2018-10-11 — A Nano-Perspective on the 1951 Film The Man in the White Suit
• 2018-10-08 — Enter the Neo-Luddites: Transcendence, The Singularity, and Technological Resistance
• 2018-10-04 — Making Sense of Superintelligence
• 2018-09-27 — What can we learn from the film Ghost in the Shell about human augmentation and the future?
• 2018-09-19 — Social inequity in an age of technological extremes: Lessons from the movie Elysium
• 2018-09-13 — Limitless: Pharmaceutically-Enhanced Intelligence
• 2018-09-10 — Minority Report: Predicting Criminal Intent
• 2018-09-06 — Never Let Me Go: A Cautionary Tale of Human Cloning
• 2018-09-03 — Tech Companies Need a Social Risk Reboot
• 2018-08-26 — Jurassic Park: The Rise of Resurrection Biology
• 2018-08-26 — In the Beginning… from Films from the Future
• 2018-08-22 — Second-guessing consumer views on products using nanotechnology
• 2018-05-12 — 10 potential risks of artificial intelligence.
• 2018-02-21 — The BS and the science of nanotechnology

2017 (1 post)

• 2017-04-10 — Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles

2016 (10 posts)

• 2016-04-01 — Will driving your own car become the socially unacceptable public health risk smoking is today?
• 2016-03-31 — Considering ethics now before radically new brain technologies get away from us
• 2016-03-12 — It’ll take more than tech for Elon Musk to pull off audacious new Tesla master plan
• 2016-03-02 — How risky are the World Economic Forum’s top 10 emerging technologies for 2016?
• 2016-02-01 — We don’t talk much about nanotechnology risks anymore, but that doesn’t mean they’re gone
• 2016-01-31 — Public universities must do more: the public needs our help and expertise
• 2016-01-20 — Three ways synthetic biology could annihilate Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
• 2016-01-12 — Can citizen science empower disenfranchised communities?
• 2016-01-11 — The fourth industrial revolution: what does WEF’s Klaus Schwab leave out?
• 2016-01-11 — Thinking innovatively about the risks of tech innovation

2015 (2 posts)

• 2015-01-30 — Responsible development of new technologies critical in complex, connected world
• 2015-01-10 — Are quantum dot TVs — and their toxic ingredients — actually better for the environment?

2014 (2 posts)

• 2014-12-14 — Researchers should take more responsibility for exaggeration in press releases
• 2014-11-23 — A Scientist’s Manifesto