Essays

This new installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether and Chief Technology Officer of Bitfinex. Unlike most guests in this series,

This new installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Lee Cronin, Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and founder and CEO of Chemify.

Ask people “What matters, ultimately?” and you’ll get a variety of answers. Maybe they’ll start with things like “scientific progress” or “the safety of my family” or “ending world hunger,”

What is human nature? Is it selfishness? Love? Curiosity? Violence? Laziness? Ambition? Creativity? Transcendence? The usual answer is to treat these traits as though they were fundamentally human. We then

This interview launches The Trajectory’s newest series, Stewarding the Flame. As increasingly powerful technologies such as AGI, brain-computer interfaces, and regenerative medicine transform both humanity and the wider world, we

Humanity has mostly functioned in a world that was mostly the same from one generation to the next. Life, business, technology, competition, and coordination from one generation to the next

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Hod Lipson, Professor of Engineering at Columbia University and one of the world’s leading researchers in robotics, machine

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Henry Shevlin, a philosopher of cognitive science and AI ethicist at the University of Cambridge. Henry’s work sits