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In this behind-the-scenes interview, Asterisk editor in chief Clara Collier talks to Elizabeth Van Nostrand, author of our latest essay, We’re all one crisis away from taking unlicensed research peptides. (Read that first!)
Clara and Eliza...
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“Unfounded and reckless” is how Dr. Eric Topol described the use of gray market peptides in a recent N...
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Everything has a price. It’s a warning you might receive from a hedge fund trader, along with your “wel...
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Americans — left, right, and everywhere in between — seem to be afraid of AI. They fear data centers speedin...
In the Beijing Capital Airport, floor-to-ceiling columns glow with ads for Alibaba’s AI cloud platform and ByteDance’s chatbot, Doubao. Swap the Chinese for English, and the scene could pass for SFO — another airport with corridors lined wi...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.
Research Manager at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. AI policy person, language enthusiast, rock climber, China nerd, chronically relapsed Wikipedia addict, etc. Logogram is my professional Substack; Idiolect is just for fun.
AI researcher turned lawyer trying to make AI go well. Prev: Harvard Law, Schwarzman Scholar, Microsoft Research, Princeton CS
Staff writer at The Economist. Previously in China, Harvard
writer of Concurrent newsletter; host of podcast CyberPink I write about Silicon Valley and China
A print and digital journal of writing on how to make sense of the world.
Was a philosophy PhD student, left to work at AI Impacts, then Center on Long-Term Risk, then OpenAI. Quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Now executive director of the AI Futures Project.
Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine
i write about bio/ml at owlposting.com! currently doing ml at noetik, previously did ml at dyno therapeutics
I write about global development, technological progress and AI. The other me writes fiction and criticism.
senior policy advocate @publicknowledge
Executive Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ecomodernist. Promethean Hamiltonian Schumpeterian meliorist.
Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.
The Young Americans | thenewcritic.com
Co-founder and CEO of California YIMBY
What if we understood more things? Freelance Research Analyst @ North Sea Analytics
I am writing a book about the NYC subway and a hopeful historical tale about outsiders who helped put the trains back on track.
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