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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” the famed computer scientist Alan Kay once said. Uttered more out of exasperation than as inspiration, his remark has nevertheless attained gospel-like status among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, in particular a handful of tech billionaires who fancy themselves the chief architects of humanity’s future.  Sam […]

Earlier this week, two new leaders of the US Food and Drug Administration published a list of priorities for the agency. Both Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad are controversial figures in the science community. They were generally highly respected academics until the covid pandemic, when their contrarian opinions on masking, vaccines, and lockdowns turned many

Accessible only to MIT alumnae and users. Monday, June 30, 2025 Empire of AI: Goals and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, a new book from AI columnist Karen Hao, tells the story of OpenAI’s rise to power and its profound impact around the world. In a personal conversation about the AI arms competition, what it