There is a quiet anxiety hanging over America’s dinner tables. Parents worry about whether artificial intelligence will replace their jobs. Young people wonder whether their education will still ...

This question of what it means to be human seems almost laughably impossible at first glance because there are as many ways to find particular meaning as there are individuals. But while researching ...

What does it mean to be human? Or, putting the point a bit more precisely, what are we saying about others when we describe them as human? Answering this question is not as straightforward as it might ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely ...

Humans are the dominant species on a dying planet, and we’re still clinging to the idea that we can think our way out, invent our way out, maybe even upload our way out. But what if the solution isn’t ...

While AI computes and recombines, humans innovate through curiosity and collaboration. Note: This is the first piece in a series aimed at helping leaders identify and build the human skills we need to ...

In a crowded fourth-grade classroom in Chicago, a new kind of tutor is shaping how children learn about empathy, conflict, and problem-solving. These robots aren’t programmed to act like friendly ...

As a kid in the ’80s, I was captivated by Star Trek, especially the idea of traveling faster than light. It was pure fantasy, but it made me believe that with the right technology, even the laws of ...