Imagine you have just asked a junior sales assistant if he can give a discount on the shirt you are considering buying. He hesitates for a moment and then says he will have to ask his boss. Now ...

Popular Youtuber CGP Grey today released an adaptation of Nick Bostrom’s The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant, a short story that parables the world’s lack of effort to fight aging and death with science.

Fretting about AI taking your job is so passé. At best, it will upend society as we know it. At worst, it could kill and dismember us to make paperclips. Gainful employment will be the least of your ...