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What is it like to live in a world you believe is about to end?
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine by June 30th to receive our next issue, Work.
I opened my interviews for this article with a simple question: “How long do we have?”
Five years, or...
Can we pay to prevent global war?
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine by June 30th to receive our next issue, Work.
By Josh Martin
Global development has a war problem. The world overall is seeing more conflict every...
Write for us! Now accepting pitches for Issue 16: Flourishing
Ogawa Kazumasa, Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers
Usually, we like to back up our claims with numbers, but right now, we’re in a more reflective mood. After all, the hot beige microsite of the summer is a papal encyclical, and it doesn’...
How long until AI doesn’t need humans?
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine by June 30th to receive our next issue, Work.
How long until AI systems can sustain their own existence — such that, if every human died, they could...
Behind the scenes: We’re all one crisis away from taking unlicensed research peptides
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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A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking, published from inside the worlds shaping the Bay Area. Subscribe in print: https://store.asteriskmag.com/.
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 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.
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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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