“Consciousness is fundamental. It's a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.”

If the people controlling AI are biased, the output will also be. Free speech scholar Jacob Mchangama makes the case for completely open-source AI.

"We're living in an extraordinary moment in history. We are at a moment here in 2025 where we have world historic game-changing technologies now starting to scale."

“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”

“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”

“An equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would allow us to, quote, 'Read the mind of God.'”

“Invention matters, but implementation matters more.”

Today’s technologist archetypes share a blind spot. Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute explains why “philosophy is essential” when building planetary-scale technology.

“Fraud never sleeps. It's really a global problem. Fraud is a trillion dollar problem, about $5 trillion today, with that number increasingly rising annually.”

From the printing press to the internet, every technological revolution in history has reshaped human thought. Now, with AI accelerating by the day, philosopher Meghan Sullivan asks: Are we ready for the philosophical shift that must follow?