The World as You'll Know It
Newsletter / Issue No. 32
Should You Hand Over Parts of Your Company to an AI Agent?
Set up an AI agent in your company and it can perform tasks, identify problems, fix them and take on even more responsibilities. But like most AI systems, it involves risks. The question is, if you don’t adopt now, will it be too late?
Plus
A new report says that AI could reduce CO₂ emissions more than it increases them if deployed well. Scientists are developing ways to try out new forms of pain relief that don’t require human or animal testing. And researchers have revived a species of wolf that went extinct about 13,000 years ago, or at least something close to it.
Technology / Feature
A $10-Billion Plan to Sell Africa's Wind and Sun to Countries 7,000 Miles Away
A deep look at how green hydrogen could capitalize on remote areas of renewable resources and redraw the world's energy map.
Artificial Intelligence / Feature
One Company's Decision to Put AI Into the Ground
What does it mean to adopt AI? For John Deere it meant hundreds of millions of dollars, a new corporate culture and forever changing the relationship between a farmer and the land.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about Clean Energy Tech
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about Clean Energy Tech
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Timeline
13 Milestones in the History of Robots
People have been making machines that replicate human abilities for centuries. These are the breakthroughs that got robots to where they are today. Photo: NMAH
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Robots' final frontier? Taking care of us.
To understand how far robots are from replacing humans, just look at the everyday task of using a fork.
By Clive Thompson