July 22, 2026
(NYT) – Retirement communities already grappling with labor shortages are being forced to terminate caregivers at a time when more Americans are living longer. Millions of immigrants, eligible to work in the United States, fill positions across the elder care … Read More
July 16, 2026
(The Humanist Review) – To understand AI’s effect on moral character, ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah goes back to John Stuart Mill, and the idea that people are shaped by their choices. Technologies that extend human powers may also, by degrees, … Read More
July 8, 2026
(Wired) – In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards. If gratification is so easy, why don’t you feel more gratified already? Because it’s gotten harder. It’s still easy to … Read More
June 25, 2026
(NBC News) – Black and American Indian/Alaska Native communities have the highest cancer rates of any racial or ethnic group in the U.S. Cancer death rates in the U.S. have dropped dramatically in the past 35 years, falling by 35%, … Read More
June 16, 2026
(NYT) – Faith and science are coming together to reduce stigma and improve care in the African American community. Roughly one in five Black Americans 65 and older has Alzheimer’s, compared with one in 10 white Americans. But it can … Read More
June 12, 2026
(NPR) – Pope Leo XIV’s recent warning that artificial intelligence risks becoming a new form of colonialism reflects a critique long raised by technology writers and journalists, including Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam … Read More
May 29, 2026
(Plough) – It is not a question of when “artificial intelligence” will develop consciousness, because there is no such thing as artificial intelligence. What we call AI is the extremely fast simulation of decision-making processes, generating results from the multitude … Read More
May 28, 2026
(ABC News) – In place of the quest to create artificial intelligences that can surpass human cognition and drive a technological revolution, Leo has written a hymn to the grandeur of human limitation. His dire assessment of the dehumanising “technocratic … Read More
May 27, 2026
(Vatican News) – Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’ He appeals for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of … Read More
May 21, 2026
(After Babel) – As a social psychologist, I’m used to speaking to academic audiences, making arguments from evidence. This was different. I spoke to the graduates — members of Gen Z — to offer advice about how to flourish in … Read More
April 16, 2026
(Axios) – Black women remain three times more likely than white and Hispanic women to die from pregnancy-related complications, according to the latest maternal mortality rates released last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why it matters: … Read More
April 13, 2026
(WSJ) – We all took an oath to do no harm. That includes killing our patients. Throughout medical school and residency, I always believed that people mattered. But it wasn’t until my conversion to Christianity that I understood why. Scripture … Read More
April 9, 2026
(New York Times) – New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices. The vegetative state, as it turned out, was not fixed — though, practically, the label tended to stick. Tabitha … Read More
April 7, 2026
(Compact Magazine) – Last April, 600 people gathered for a technology policy conference in downtown Washington, DC. The main speaker, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, laid out what he called the “San Francisco consensus”: the view that “within three to … Read More
April 6, 2026
(Law & Liberty) – Glenn Hughes’s posthumous book is a reminder of the philosophical sources for the conception of human dignity that ought to define our political tradition. Glenn “Chip” Hughes, longtime professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s University in … Read More
April 2, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores. When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a … Read More
March 30, 2026
(The Guardian) – ‘Zombie filler’, or using cadaver tissue that’s been sterilized and branded as Alloclae, is the latest cosmetic surgery rage. Is it safe? And there’s something new on the menu: a state-of-the-art procedure that employs “cadaveric adipose tissue” … Read More
March 18, 2026
(Wired) – Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money. A WIRED review of dozens of … Read More
March 18, 2026
(BBC) – Organisations worldwide are racing to develop a universally recognised label for “human-made” products and services as part of the growing backlash against AI use. Declarations like “Proudly Human”, “Human-made”, ‘”No A.I” and “AI-free” are appearing across films, marketing, … Read More
March 10, 2026
(The Walrus) – There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan Statistics here are so overwhelming they can feel meaningless. And in a way, they are. Today’s war, if discussed at all, … Read More
February 18, 2026
(Wired) – WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: “People would love to have a clanker as their boss.” The provocatively titled platform enables users to connect … Read More
February 13, 2026
(Wired) – The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight. Cryptocurrency’s frictionless, transnational, low-regulation transactions have … Read More
February 11, 2026
(WSJ) – The executive, who was accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee, had raised concerns about upcoming launch of erotic content OpenAI said Beiermeister “made valuable contributions during her time at OpenAI, and her departure was not related … Read More
February 6, 2026
(Futurism) – The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman[dot]ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, … Read More
February 3, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – A hospital in Barcelona said on Monday it had performed a pioneering facial transplant in which the donor, in a world first, had offered her face for donation before undergoing an assisted dying procedure. The complex … Read More
