What Our Pets Can Tell Us About Our Future With Robots
In her new book, robotics ethicist Kate Darling argues that we should look to our furry companions to understand the promises and pitfalls of our future with robots.
Books
“Urgency and Agency”: Michael Mann on Conquering Climate Despair
The fossil fuel industry has come up with sneaky new tactics to keep us from acting on climate change. Michael Mann shows us how to identify (and overcome) their anticlimate strategies.
We Can All Be Fundamentalists, and Fundamentalism Is Everywhere
A conversation with the authors of “Minds Wide Shut” about how to avoid a destructive, and pervasive, mode of thinking that affects all of us.
Four Roles for a Behavioral Scientist within Your Organization
Designing, developing, and implementing products and programs is hard. Behavioral scientists can help. But only if you understand the roles they can play, the problems they can solve, and how they can add value to an organization like yours.
Subtract: Why Getting to Less Can Mean Thinking More
In striving to improve our lives, our work, and our society, we overwhelmingly add, overlooking another powerful option—subtraction.
Exploring the Links Between Autism and Invention
Scott Barry Kaufman speaks with Simon Baron-Cohen about Baron-Cohen’s new book, The Pattern Seekers, which makes the case that the same genes that give rise to autism are and have been crucial to humanity’s propensity to invent and innovate.