On 22 March 2023, Future of Life Institute published an open letter titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”. In this letter, eminent AI researchers and venture investors such as Yoshua Bengio, Elon Musk, and Steve Wozniak called on “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI […]
Anthony Cruz Pantojas, MATS, MALS, BCC (they/them), is the Humanist Chaplain and Coordinator of Africana Spirituality at Tufts University. Currently, they are a board member for Secular Coalition for America, The Humanist Society, as well as the International Association of Chaplains in Higher Education. Cruz Pantojas’s praxis centers Afro-Caribbean humanist and freethought philosophies, promotes critical
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Fish Stark was appointed the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association in September 2024. This article is excerpted from his Welcome remarks at the American Humanist Association’s 2024 Conference in September. LET’S GET THIS out of the way early: Fish is not my given name. My father, Fortney Hillman Stark Jr., rarely used his
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What is the number one purpose of human existence? The primary biological purpose of every living thing, including humans, is to replicate so the species will survive. This is as true today as it was in prehistoric times. Charles Darwin showed that human are animals in a long evolutionary line of animals. The more we
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Amy Goodman received the Humanist of the Year Award at the American Humanist Association’s 83rd Annual Conference, held virtually in September 2024. The award recognizes a person of national and international reputation who, through the application of humanist values, has made a significant contribution to the human condition. Amy Goodman is the host and executive
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Karen Hao received the Humanist Media Award at the American Humanist Association’s 83rd Annual Conference, held virtually in September 2024. Hao is an award-winning journalist covering artificial intelligence. She was the first journalist to ever profile OpenAI; and is now working on a book about the company and the AI industry for Penguin Press, to
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Ted Chiang received the Humanist Inquiry & Innovation Award at the American Humanist Association’s 83rd Annual Conference, held virtually in September 2024. This award honors those who have advanced human understanding and innovation in ways that uphold humanist values, work that exemplifies the power of inquiry and innovation to promote human dignity, freedom and progress.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Jared Huffman received the Religious Liberty Award at the American Humanist Association’s 83rd Annual Conference, held virtually in September 2024. The award honors individuals who demonstrate exceptional dedication to religious freedom, tolerance and diverse beliefs, celebrating those who courageously defend the rights to practice any faith or no faith at
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Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections are all the rage these days, for a lot of things. They’re responsible for the “vampire facial”. They’re the key ingredient of the “O” – an injection into the vagina and clitoris to apparently improve orgasm. They’re also key to the penile equivalent, the “P” shot, where PRP is injected directly
This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 4, Issue 6, from 1990. Melvin Harris’s article ‘Many Happy Returns’ published in The Skeptic Vol 4 No 4 reports a commendable journalistic investigation of claims for evidence of reincarnation derived from hypnotic ‘past life regressions’. Ian Wilson has also written a similar account in his book
