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What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence

By Webb Keane | February 7, 2025

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Surekha Davies on Machines, Monsters and Why Humanity is Still Worth Fighting For

By Surekha Davies | February 6, 2025

Freedom and Responsibility: Why Earth’s Survival Depends on All of Us

Freedom and Responsibility: Why Earth’s Survival Depends on All of Us

Sunil Amrith on the Imperative Need to Understand the Long History of Human Impact on the Environment

By Sunil Amrith | September 25, 2024

Should Humanity Pay the Ultimate Price For Its Crimes Against Nature?

Should Humanity Pay the Ultimate Price For Its Crimes Against Nature?

Todd May Ponders the Prospect and Ethics of Voluntary Human Extinction

By Todd May | August 5, 2024

Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

Brian Klaas Considers the Fragile Foundations of Our Individual and Collective Existence

By Brian Klaas | January 24, 2024

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

Sukhada Tatke Remembers the Essayist and His Scientific and Creative Vision

By Sukhada Tatke | December 20, 2023

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Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

“I love romance very much. It's like the genre picked me.”

By Rasheeda Saka | April 14, 2021

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By David L. Ulin | October 22, 2019

Barry Lopez on the Hard Question of Humanity's Survival

Barry Lopez on the Hard Question of Humanity's Survival

Thoughts on Life from a Remote Arctic Island

By Barry Lopez | March 20, 2019

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read

"When it's difficult, what keeps me going is the possibility of joy."

By Emily Temple | September 15, 2017