Future Perfect
Finding the best ways to do good. Check out our 2025 Future Perfect 25 list, which presents 25 changemakers who are innovating and implementing ways to keep making progress on global health and development.
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Academia has gotten philosophical about AI. But they should focus more on what it can do.
“I should have thought of this 10 years ago,” Yoshua Bengio says.
Too bad it’s now sabotaging it.
Everyone wants to be a girl dad now.
The tech right saw in Trump what they wanted to see, but it wasn’t actually there
The world’s “most controversial” food additive, explained.
And that’s not even Apple’s biggest problem right now
Republicans are gutting the safety net as job-killing mass automation looms.
What to do when your partner wants an open marriage and you don’t.
The quiet revolutions that have prevented millions of cancer deaths.
Artificial intelligence could weaponize the data we’ve been sharing for decades.
What to know about the tech giant’s growing biometric business.
What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind.
Our economy isn’t built for the biological clock. But it can be.
From disaster warnings to drug development, how AI is generating real-world wins.
A step forward in academia’s existential fight against scientific fraud.
When animal cruelty trumps capitalism.
The real cost of forcing foreign students away from elite universities like Harvard.
The search giant’s midlife crisis is now your problem.
Do we need apartment buildings to have two staircases?
Pope Leo’s unusual crusade should be a model for every religion.
Yes, protein builds muscle. No, you don’t need as much as lifting influencers say.
How to get parents and friends to get serious about doing good.
Your summer won’t be as good as you think it will be. It never is.
Non-combatants bear the brunt of modern war’s toll, but we don’t know how to memorialize them.
Americans remained scared of violent crime. The numbers tell a different story.
Why millions of chickens never make it to the slaughterhouse.
Rapid changes from AI may be coming far faster than you imagine.
Why billionaires need to give more — and give faster.
Now is a good time to think about tech training wheels.
Social media gives the illusion of connection. Here’s what happened when I ditched my iPhone for a month.
The record drop in drug overdose deaths, briefly explained.
We’re still good at preventing plane crashes. We just have to actually do it.
The mass killing of tiny creatures, explained.
Hearing aids are cool now.
One company dominated the competition: Impossible Foods.
We can keep saving lives when foreign aid is dying.
Is Trump doing the right thing on animal research for the wrong reasons?
What if we measured success in terms of how much good we do?
From image generation to writing, ranking the best — and worst — of AI.