David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI’s Safety Systems team who quit the company this week, once had ambitions to bring philosophy to journalism. A Rhodes Scholar, Robinson graduated from Princeton in 2004 with a degree in philosophy. At Princeton, he led the school newspaper’s opinion section. In a 2003 interview with the Daily Princetonian, Robinson
In 1915, Albert Einstein unveiled his general theory of relativity and transformed our view of the fabric of the physical world. The theory, which explains gravitation as a deformation of space-time by mass, is a pinnacle of modern physics that underpins cosmology, from work on black holes to measurements of gravitational waves, and is used
Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other Anthony Chemero Columbia Univ. Press (2026) Consciousness research is having an AI moment. Will the hype help the field? What does it mean for a machine to be intelligent, sentient or conscious? Can the idea of legal rights for machines ever be meaningfully justified? Those
Yiyang Zhuge learned last week that when you go extremely viral, the people you have been following for years suddenly start following you back. Zhuge logged onto X and found that a string of famous professors and scholars were in her list of new followers. A PhD candidate in political philosophy at Boston College, Zhuge
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