In our Spring 2026 interview, Burning Glass Institute president Matt Sigelman shares his insights about the worth of a college degree, the future of work in an age of artificial intelligence, and revitalizing the American dream.
Read the interview here: issues.org/burning-glas...
“The appearance of unparalleled quality and global leadership among American research universities belies a more complicated truth.” Robert Brown and Bruce Guile urge universities to shift attention from “chasing prestige to crafting strategies for long-term success.” issues.org/american-res...
“When institutions privilege a narrow range of cognitive practices as legitimate knowledge,” Michael Crow, David Rosowsky, and William Dabars write, “they marginalize the exploratory, embodied, and relational forms of intelligence through which innovation often emerges.” issues.org/pluralistic-...
On our podcast, Emily Packard Dawson, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School, speaks with ISSUES managing editor Jason Lloyd about the ethical and policy challenges that assistive reproductive technologies raise for egg donations. issues.org/the-future-o...
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In our latest piece, US Representative Brian Babin argues that a disciplined division of labor between government agencies and commercial actors is critical for the US to maintain leadership in space.
Read: issues.org/america-next...
How should the public fund science? How can research improve the quality of life in local communities?
Our new Spring 2026 issue explores these questions and more to better understand how the social contract between science and society is evolving. issues.org/issue/42-3/
Freeman opines that “We should be living with nature, not imposing ourselves on it; accepting it, letting it exist with us; observing it quietly, just letting it be around us.”
Read more of Freeman’s “If These Walls Could Talk” exhibition in our Spring 2025 issue: issues.org/kathryn-free...
Kathryn Freeman
Hunting Season, 2024
“Robots would not be restrained by ‘human compassion, which can provide an important check on the killing of civilians.’”
Stuart Russell details the complexities of finding an international consensus to support a ban on lethal autonomous weapons in our Spring 2022 issue. issues.org/banning-leth...
“Think globally, act locally.”
Amid a fragmented R&D system, Martin Ho, Pramod P. Khargonekar, and Eoin O’Sullivan propose a grand challenge framework to make coordination across a decentralized and diverse network of public agencies, private industries, and philanthropic organizations effective.
Strachan’s series “Six Thousand Years” merges art and science in surreal landscapes to uncover often overlooked histories in mainstream narratives.
Read more about Strachan’s recent exhibition “The Day Tomorrow Began” in our recent issue: issues.org/tavares-stra...
Tavares Strachan
Shadow Maps (The Snowy Owl), 2022
“As a technologist, I absolutely believe in increased productivity, but that doesn’t automatically translate into shared prosperity.”
@drfeifei.bsky.social shares her thoughts with ISSUES on the ethical responsibilities surrounding AI in our Spring 2024 issue. issues.org/interview-go...
In the latest installment of our podcast, Edward You, a former special agent in the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, joins ISSUES editor-in-chief @lisamargonelli.bsky.social to discuss how You helped reframe how policymakers understand biosecurity. issues.org/edward-you-p...
Sign up for the newsletter here for a deeper dive into the #FutureTenseFiction series along with materials for discussing the stories. futuretensefiction.substack.com/subscribe?ut...
Anderson’s story explores what happens when a world-changing physics breakthrough crashes into our bottomless desire for junk—and in the response essay, Torie Bosch examines how consumerism can weaponize ground-breaking technology.
In the latest installment of our #FutureTenseFiction newsletter, our managing editor Jason Lloyd introduces Gunnar Anderson‘s “The Pocket Box™,” this month‘s story, along with a behind the scenes conversation with Anderson and related readings. futuretensefiction.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...
The Future Tense Fiction team invited me back to weigh in on the super cool short story "The Pocket Box." Give it a read and then read my response! issues.org/futuretensef...
What would you buy if you had unlimited storage? In response to Gunnar Anderson’s “The Pocket Box™,” the newest short story in the #FutureTenseFiction series, @thekibosch.bsky.social looks at how mass consumption transforms technological breakthroughs. issues.org/futuretensef...
How long does it take for a ground-breaking scientific discovery to become a mass consumer product? Gunnar Anderson’s “The Pocket Box™,” the new #FutureTenseFiction story, explores when a world-changing breakthrough in physics becomes a commodity with next-day shipping. issues.org/futuretensef...
“...AI chatbots are chimeric: They contain multitudes, shifting from one role to another in the course of a conversation, including that of learned intermediaries like doctors, lawyers, therapists, financial advisers—and trusted friends.”
-Joshua Joseph & @zittrain.bsky.social
“We’ve seen this movie before with the rise of social media, when we allowed companies to use kids as guinea pigs for a massive, uncontrolled experiment. It gave way to a full-blown mental health crisis….We cannot make the same mistakes with AI.”
—Amina Fazlullah
“Vulnerable elders may be especially prone to forming unrealistic beliefs about AI companions’ capacities for genuine care and emotional reciprocity”
—@csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
“...when an AI system learns autonomously, generates unbounded content, and is optimized to sustain user engagement at any cost, the possibility of meaningful correction diminishes rapidly. These are precisely the circumstances where red lines become necessary.”
—Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg, @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, Amina Fazlullah, and Joshua Joseph & @zittrain.bsky.social respond to @jbbranch.bsky.social‘s piece on regulatory frameworks for AI companions in our Forum section. Read the discussion here: issues.org/reducing-pot...
"Then one day the workshop
was shuttered and
a bright, desiccant, metallic
soot took place from the pleasant
and hectic comings
and goings, and we
none of us recalled what had been done…."
Read more of G. L. Ford's poem "Industry" in our recent issue: issues.org/industry-poe...
Nathalie Miebach’s series "The Floods" explores how experiencing data through art can deepen our engagement with the realities of climate change. It asks not how art can explain science, but how it can help us feel the systems we seek to understand.
Read: issues.org/sculpting-th...
“We should be deeply skeptical of the promotion of AI as a solution to the fog of war, which imagines that the right technology will find the important signals amid the noise.” In our Winter 2024 issue, Lucy Suchman questions the narratives underlying AI-enabled warfare. issues.org/ai-pretense-...
Warren & Rhoades detail how this state-based research model builds trust between academic institutions, state policymakers, and local communities for efficient research that redefines “what publicly funded science looks like and how it impacts everyday lives.”
Read: issues.org/north-caroli...
