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Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything?

Philosopher Nick Bostrom is surprisingly cheerful for someone who has spent so much time worrying about ways that humanity might destroy itself. In photographs he often looks deadly serious, perhaps …

This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born

by Lucy Akhurst

Walk me through your own decision to do this—to use Orchid’s technology on yourself. I mean, I started the company because I wanted to test my own embryos. Because of …

I am a theatre critic and Stranger Things: The First Shadow will surprise you | Theatre | Entertainment

by Lars Ahlin

The exploding rat was a surprise. But this theatrical prequel to the Duffer Brothers’ hit Netflix series about the strange events in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, is stuffed …