When there's no vaccine on the market, people will look for other ways to be safe, including school closures and... more

Economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence.... more

Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen as Yudkowsky speaks... more

While operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried stumbled on the region of the brain... more

Is the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way around? In 2008, Duke University... more

When he was a child, poet Dana Gioia's mother would come home from a long day of work and recite... more

As Israel turns 75, has it fulfilled the promise of its founders? Daniel Gordis of Shalem College talks about his... more

They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're... more

Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. His advice includes how... more

When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best treatment for mental illness. A... more