Thresholds
Imran KhanThresholds is where I write about the weird, messy places that science & tech collide with society & culture. AI safety, psychedelic research, science communication, and a lot of stuff in between.
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A minor quibble with Demis Hassabis
“Solve empathy, and then use empathy to solve everything else”.
That’s not quite the slogan of Demis Hassabis, founder of Google DeepMind.
Hassabis famously argues we should ‘solve intelligence’ - meaning, create AGI - ‘and then use arti...
In search of psychedelic wisdom
Psychonauts — I need your help.
I’m nearing the end of the first draft of my first book, Psychedelics: The Essential Knowledge (MIT Press, forthcoming). It unpacks the long history, weird culture, varied uses, and strange science behind dr...
Psychedelic Myths That Stick Around
Every field collects its own myths. Psychedelics are no exception.
Some are charming, some are seductive… and some quietly warp research, policy, expectations — and even public safety.
While working on my forthcoming MIT Press book (Psych...
What RFK Jr Gets Right About Vaccines
The Health Secretary is dangerously wrong about a lot. He seems wilfully blind to the kind of basic high-school science people should know for their own health - nevermind for looking after 250 million others.
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Psychedelics, Wheat, and Rhizomes
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Humans use psychedelics. But do psychedelics ‘use’ humans too? Or, another way of asking it; how do psychedelics spread, and affect our world?
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Skeptical optimist. Working on Responsible AI at the Center for Humane Technology. Author - 'The Essential Knowledge: Psychedelics' (MIT Press, forthcoming).
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