The Promise and Peril of Emerging Technologies
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The benefits and harms of AI are tied to social media and require parental-like guidance towards societal good.
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Human consciousness remains an unsolved scientific mystery, with language and conceptual thought making us unique.
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Democracy faces threats from climate change and needs political reforms to address environmental systems.
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Mass extinctions enabled new species like mammals to evolve and inherit the earth.
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The paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics stems from philosophical debates about the wave function.