Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Why AI Will Make Law Enforcement Fairer and Society Safer

    AI is already bringing efficiencies to vast sectors of the economy including finance, insurance, healthcare, customer service, manufacturing, and more. But when it comes to law enforcement, much of the conversation has revolved around potential downsides such as algorithmic bias, error-prone facial recognition technologies, and other ways AI could be used, intentionally or not, to…

  • Reinventing College Admissions

    With just one click, you can book a trip around the world. You can also secure a mortgage, buy a car, stock up on groceries — once time-consuming and resource-intensive tasks. Indeed, we’ve seen some of the largest global industries transform themselves to reap the myriad benefits of the digital age: democratized information, revolutionized communication,…

  • To Save a Trillion Dollars, Follow Doctors’ Orders

    The US healthcare system faces many intractable problems, from doctor burnout and soaring administrative costs to misaligned incentives and ineffective insurance. But there’s an even bigger problem that gets far less attention: Only 28 percent of Americans actually follow through on the directives of their doctors and other caregivers. The reason is simple: friction. Whether…

  • Unlocking AI’s Potential With Code Testing

    Launching a new app or SaaS product has never been easier. With the advent of generative AI tools, the cycles for spinning up a prototype are shrinking rapidly. AI can lower the coding lift or automate stages of production. But automation isn’t speeding up the pace of innovation in any meaningful way. In fact, for…

  • Your Hypersonic Flight Awaits

    Although much about airplane travel has changed since the inception of the turbojet seven decades ago — think smoking sections, the emergence of bag fees, planes that now mostly fly themselves — the speed of planes hasn’t budged. In fact, despite leaps and bounds in overall technology advancement, commercial airplanes now travel slower than they…

  • Extending Dog Years

    In the animal kingdom, size often directly correlates with lifespan. Small mammals like mice may live a few years, while elephants can reach 60 and whales, 100. In dogs, we see the inverse: the larger the dog, the shorter the expected lifespan. At the extremes, a Chihuahua may live 18 years, while a Great Dane…

  • Planet-Friendly Plastic

    In recent years, our dependence on plastics has become a massive, rapidly growing environmental problem. Around 99% of the 400 million tons of plastics produced every year, from disposable water bottles to industrial-strength pipes, are derived from fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal. Besides the greenhouse gasses that are released to extract…

  • Supercharging America’s National Defense With AI

    Over the past year, the idea that AI will transform how we work and live has become ingrained in the zeitgeist. Analysts everywhere are quantifying AI’s expected impact on business and the economy, and reports that measure it in the trillions of dollars—from the likes of McKinsey, PwC and others—land on newspaper front pages with…

  • The Rise of Innovation in Wildfire Detection and Response

    When Hurricane Ian crashed into southwest Florida in 2022, it caused massive and widespread damage. The Category 4 hurricane caused more than 150 direct and indirect deaths, and more than $112 billion in damage. It was the costliest hurricane in Florida’s history to date, and the third most costly in the U.S. But one town…

  • The Coming Payments Revolution

    Picture this: An employee gets off work at 7 p.m. While walking to her car, she logs into her team member app and requests a payment for that shift. By 7:05, the money hits her bank account and is available to use for groceries, rent or a car payment. No waiting two weeks to receive…

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