Katja Grace on whether we can trust experts' predictions about technology. | Continue reading
We reviewed all the research, drawing on over 60 studies, and found the six key factors for true job satisfaction. None of them is 'following your passion'. | Continue reading
Prof Ng's take on ethics, economics, revolution and making a much happier world. | Continue reading
Is it worse for a 5 or 20 year old to die? What to do when lives hang on your answer. | Continue reading
A list of the most urgent global issues, based on research with researchers at Oxford University. | Continue reading
At 16 Tara Mac Aulay was saving restaurants from closure; at 20 preventing millions in drugs being thrown away; at 22 stopping chemo from killing patients in Bhutan. She explains how practical skills make vital projects possible. | Continue reading
Oxford philosophy Prof Will MacAskill points out that Kant was one of the earliest proponents for democracy - but he also thought that women had no place in civil society... | Continue reading
While it might not seem sexy, this single change could transform politics. | Continue reading
Dr Anders Sandberg of Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, discusses ageless dictators, the risk of nuclear war, whether solar flares could destroy our electronic, & more. | Continue reading
The Case Against Education's claim is striking: education doesn’t teach people much, we use little of what we learn, and college is mostly about trying to seem smarter than other people - so the government should slash education funding. | Continue reading
According to Prof Allan Dafoe simply adding data, sensors & computing capacity to existing AI algorithms could generate major systemic risks, both political and economic. | Continue reading
If you have a study on how effective a project seemed in country A, how much does that help you predict how effective it will look in country B? Not much. | Continue reading
The universe is so vast, yet we see no alien civilizations. If they exist, where are they? Oxford's Anders Sandberg has an original answer: they’re 'sleeping', and for a very powerful reason. | Continue reading
The universe is so vast, yet we see no alien civilizations. If they exist, where are they? Oxford's Anders Sandberg has an original answer: they’re 'sleeping', and for a very powerful reason. | Continue reading