This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it For the past five months, Al Nowatzki has been talking to an AI girlfriend, “Erin,” on…
Mountain climber, photographer and writer Cory Richards shares life lessons from his new book “The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within.”
Forget massive steel tanks—some scientists want to make chemicals with the help of rocks deep beneath Earth’s surface. New research shows that ammonia, a chemical crucial for fertilizer, can be produced from rocks at temperatures and pressures that are common in the subsurface. The research was published today in Joule, and MIT Technology Review can…
Fear is one of the most powerful influences in human behavior and therefore plays a vital role in leadership. It has the power to drive decision dynamics, team performance and organizational productivity.