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Features editor @WIRED Author of TREMORS IN THE BLOOD + THE ATHLETIC BRAIN Co-host All Consuming on @bbcradio4 / @bbcsounds

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Amit Katwala’s Journalist Portfolio

The explosive race to totally reinvent the smartphone battery

The explosive race to totally reinvent the smartphone battery

If you're reading this on your smartphone, you're holding a bomb. Beneath a protective screen, lithium - a me…

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What's driving Elon Musk?

What's driving Elon Musk?

Elon Musk is a science-fiction character. That's how one friend puts it. In some ways, the CEO of SpaceX and …

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The unending hunt for Planet Nine, our solar system's hidden world

The unending hunt for Planet Nine, our solar system's hidden world

Sharon Forbes spends her evenings on the sofa, searching for another world. At her house in Wiltshire, with t…

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Global insect populations are collapsing, and we don't know why

Global insect populations are collapsing, and we don't know why

A storm is blowing in from the west. A helikite shakes in the breeze, and a small group of scientists - dress…

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The race to create a perfect lie detector - and the dangers of succeeding

The race to create a perfect lie detector - and the dangers of succeeding

We learn to lie as children, between the ages of two and five. By adulthood, we are prolific. We lie to our e…

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Articles

AI expansion may not be one big environmental problem. But it’ll be lots of smaller ones.

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By Amit Katwala Verified
| Transformer
Oliver Kemp for Transformer By Amit Katwala In Machines of Loving Grace, his utopian vision of a world transformed, Anthropic founder Dario Amodei promises that AI could soon deliver “a country of geniuses in a data center.” That could come with a country-sized impact on the environment. By 2030, if current projections for data center build-outs prove correct, they will consume as much energy as Japan, and as much water as needed to supply everyone in sub-Saharan Africa.
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AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

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By Amit Katwala Verified
| MIT Technology Review Verified
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in line. Researchers at frontier labs hope large swarms of agents working together will speed up the rate of scientific discovery.
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The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

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By Amit Katwala Verified
| Flipboard
6 hours ago Joshua David Stein After much ballyhoo, the Enhanced Games wrapped very early on the morning of May 25. By midday, cherry pickers and semis were breaking down the elaborate arena built in the parking lot of the Resorts World Casino on the Las Vegas strip. The eight-lane track; the six-lane pool, the …
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Awards

GG2 Leadership Awards

2012 - Young Journalist of the Year

Sports Journalists Association Awards

2012 - Nominated for Young Sportswriter of the Year