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A More Political Science

What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?

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Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Garth Brown

Oiling the Chicken Machine

Queasy about lab-grown meat? Too bad — you’ve pretty much been eating it for decades.

Garth Brown

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Ari Schulman

Missing the Manhattan Project

What America has forgotten from a moment when we still knew that science could conquer — and sin

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Ari Schulman

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have

The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • A Lover of Good Government
  • Philip Wallach

How Congress Was Saved

A report from the year 2039 on how the spirit of efficiency reformed a once-maligned institution

A Lover of Good Government and Philip Wallach

Editorial | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • The Editors of The New Atlantis

Take No for an Answer on Genetic Engineering

Good news: The agonizing moral quandary of “designer babies” has been resolved. But will scientists accept democracy’s verdict?

The Editors of The New Atlantis

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Louise Liebeskind

Sam Altman Doesn’t Want To Be Your AI King

...but he might be anyway.

From: They’re Here…

Louise Liebeskind

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Daniel Walden

The Speech of the Dead

Against AI necromancy

From: They’re Here…

Daniel Walden

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Tess Doezema
  • Nina Frahm

How the State Built This AI Moment

The law isn’t lagging, it’s leading.

From: They’re Here…

Tess Doezema and Nina Frahm

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Adam Elkus

AI Can’t Beat Stupid

Predictions of AI apocalypse suffer the classic egghead blunder: they overrate the power of raw intelligence.

From: They’re Here…

Adam Elkus

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

B.S. Jobs and the Coming Crisis of Meaning

AI will destroy a lot of jobs that are already pointless. Is that really worth celebrating?

From: They’re Here…

Brian J. A. Boyd

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