Jonathan Haidt: Kids Should Put Down the Phones and Take More Risks
"We're too afraid they'll get abducted," says the author of The Anxious Generation. "That sets kids up to be weaker."
"We're too afraid they'll get abducted," says the author of The Anxious Generation. "That sets kids up to be weaker."
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Rand Paul, who called for "a crackdown on people" who celebrated the assassination, was less careful in distinguishing between private and government action.
Two technologists argue that Web3 will allow new forms of organization to supplant traditional governments.
Federalism works best when state-level policy experiments stay contained.
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A vast cancel culture campaign is a poor way to honor his legacy.
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In a recent study, participants were paired with either a human or an AI debate opponent. The results confirm AI's power of persuasion.
The Finnish startup Solar Foods has received a "Generally Recognized as Safe" designation from the FDA.
Crackdowns on AI chatbots over perceived risks to children's safety could ultimately put more children at risk.
The phrases are a mix of anti-fascist sentiments and irony-poisoned internet memes.
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He’s the stablecoin president, seeking to expand the monetary power and borrowing capacity of the U.S. government.
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, who once opposed government jawboning, now says people should be banned from both social media and public life over their posts.
Republican AI opponents sound an awful lot like Democrats.
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Tucked into the defense bill, the GAIN AI Act would force Nvidia and other firms to prioritize domestic sales at the cost of global competitiveness.
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The agency's puzzling concerns about the Lykos Therapeutics drug application
It's time for President Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act and resolve the crisis.
The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.
A bill meant to fight AI deepfakes could devastate creativity in games like Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, and Minecraft, where mods keep old titles alive.
Tens of thousands of people die each year in crashes where human error was the cause or a contributing factor.
There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman.
Failure of imagination drives the bipartisan energy around busting so-called Big Tech monopolies.
A federal judge rejected the proposed structural remedies in the Google search engine monopoly case.
Not long ago, conservatives were rightly concerned about jawboning. Now they're apparently happy to take part in it themselves.
Unintended—but entirely predictable—consequences abound!
Technologist Pablos Holman warns that slowing AI progress cedes the future to gatekeepers and explains how open competition can unlock breakthroughs in energy, health, and innovation on a massive scale.
Many people prefer naturally produced over man-made. But isn't there something just as compelling about the stuff that thousands of people collaborated to make?
RFK Jr. has had a crazy week. It will not be his last, alas.
Economist Bob Murphy discusses the mounting pressure on the Federal Reserve, the implications of the government taking Intel equity, and capitalism under siege on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
The potential nationalization and forced revenue sharing of university patents makes a strong case for the separation of economy and state.
Economists at the Federal Reserve and Stanford University recently published studies investigating how AI affects employment in different industries.
Leaked emails show Epstein’s attempts to dabble in security tech—across borders—in the last years of his life.
This is corporate socialism in a MAGA hat.
Age verification laws are already coming for Americans’ access to free speech.
It's no coincidence why Europeans don't have air conditioning, clothes dryers, or ice.
Lena Dunham's new show is a send-up of internet therapy culture.
Convincing the U.K. to stand down on backdoor access to Apple's encryption is a big win. The next battle will be fought over age verification.
"If your kids went through puberty on a smartphone with social media, they came out different than human beings before that," argues psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
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Despite those viral charts you may have seen, conscientiousness among young people doesn't actually seem to be in "freefall."
For just $55 million, you can book a weeklong vacation on the International Space Station. It's not exactly an all-inclusive beach resort.