How AI is changing our lives — for better and worse. Articles, research, videos and reflections in one place.
AI is fundamentally transforming pharmaceutical research, reducing drug candidate identification from years to months and enabling discoveries that would be impossible through traditional methods.
A comprehensive survey identifying 13 key areas where machine learning can help address climate change — from optimizing power grids to monitoring deforestation.
Eric Topol's landmark review in Nature Medicine documenting how AI matches or exceeds human experts in radiology, pathology, dermatology, and ophthalmology.
The first large-scale field experiment showing AI assistants increased worker productivity by 14% on average, with the largest gains for least-experienced workers.
Analysis of 350,000+ adolescents found that technology use explains only 0.4% of variation in wellbeing — comparable to the negative effect of eating potatoes or wearing glasses.
The first RCT showing that a fully automated AI chatbot (Woebot) significantly reduced depression and anxiety symptoms in young adults over two weeks.
With ~950 FDA-approved AI medical devices and AI-designed drugs entering human trials, artificial intelligence is revolutionizing healthcare from diagnosis to treatment.
AI crop yield predictions outperform traditional methods by 15-30%. As the world population heads toward 10 billion, precision agriculture may be our best hope.
In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for AI-powered protein structure prediction — a breakthrough that solved a 50-year-old scientific problem.