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Pradeep Niroula lauds Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, "Inventor of the Future," which soberly fact-checks Buckminster Fuller’s legend.
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies--the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume and the produces foisted upon us
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
ABSTRACT In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased. But When Prophecy Fails (1956), the now‐canonical account of the event, claimed the opposite: that the group doubled down on its beliefs and began recruiting—evidence, the authors argued, of a new psychological mechanism, cognitive dissonance. Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false. The documents reveal that the group actively proselytized well before the prophecy failed and quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward. They also expose serious ethical violations by the researchers, including fabricated psychic messages, covert manipulation, and interference in a child welfare investigation. One coauthor, Henry Riecken, posed as a spiritual authority and later admitted he had “precipitated” the climactic events of the study.
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
The inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, 'fake news,' and why net neutrality is so important
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sat down with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, for a far-ranging conversation.
Prophet Motives & Knightwork States
The Chain Mail Gaze I: Technology, Capital, Spirituality: An Unholy Trinity?
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Building AI That Benefits Everyone
In a recent Financial Times op-ed, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses how to ensure a future of AI that benefits and protects all.
Prophetic: Ultrasonic Lucid Dreaming
Prophetic is an American technology company that is developing a device to induce lucid dreaming.
Prophecy And Future Coding
Preface: On Prophecy and the Search for Certainty in an Age of Reflexive Time
The AI future where humans get paid to be creative
Who Funds the Future?
The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen plans “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar.
How are we writing the future of humanity?
Consciousness spinning
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.
AI and the future(s) of [insert domain here]
AI and/for science
Becoming a stranger in my own field
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