Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis predicted AI smarter than humans will help us “colonize the galaxy,” in as soon as 5 years ...

While some people fantasize about living on Mars, others think we need first to fix the problems Earth has to offer.

In the age of "artificial intelligence," tech CEOs have ranked among the tech's biggest cheerleaders. Drawing on SciFi tropes and ill-defined industry terms, the pitch usually involves a confident ...

The desire to colonize — to have unquestioned, unchallenged and automatic access to something, to any type of body, and to use it at will — is a patriarchal one. Indeed, ...

Qualms about the word colonize aren't new—in the earliest days of spaceflight, the State Department tried to ban the term and Carl Sagan preferred space cities.

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

Musk, for example, argues we should ensure the preservation of “the light of consciousness,” and that we must colonize Mars “before something happens on Earth to prevent that.” ...

As for mining, "colonize" says it all: exploitation! It turns my stomach to imagine looking up at Apple or Elon raping humankind’s precious heritage. I cop to being romantic: ...

Inside their complex colonies, ants take on one of several vocations: hunter, engineer, soldier, explorer, queen — and hitchhiker? When car owners filed reports of temporary ant infestations in ...

The Friday Read ‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town Elon Musk gave it a shot in Washington.