MIT Technology Review Explores the Future of the Human Body and AI's Impact
Published on May 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM
MIT Technology Review has released its latest issue, focusing on the future of the human body and the potential impact of science and technology. The issue explores several key areas:
- Embryo Engineering: A new field claims to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and moral character in embryos, raising ethical questions about human evolution.
- Reversing Aging: Research into aging clocks seeks to understand and potentially reverse the aging process.
- Synthetic Biology: Stem-cell scientist Jacob Hanna is attempting to create animal bodies directly from stem cells.
- Muscle Memory: Bonnie Tsui examines how our bodies learn and remember exercise through muscle cell memory.
- China's demand for US chip firms to share sales data.
- AI pioneers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, calling for a ban on superintelligent systems.
- Debates around whether Anthropic's AI is "woke."
- Climate scientists anticipating more solar geoengineering attempts.
- Silicon Valley's fascination with China's rapid innovation.
- YouTube's launch of a likeness detector to combat AI doppelgängers.
- The threat of bots to Reddit's human chat environment.
- The rise of AI-powered pet toys like Moflin.
- The surprising accessibility of jobs in AI, even without extensive AI knowledge.