2026 QUESTIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Explore the Questions
2026 QUESTIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Explore the Questions
2026 QUESTIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Explore the Questions
Choose from the Eighteen Prompts
Theme A
Technology That Has to Earn Our Trust
How can technology protect people without creating a new problem in the process?
01
Which AI Risk Should We Fix First?
02
How Can You Turn Your Phone into a Hidden Camera Detector?
03
What Happens When Quantum Computing Meets Today’s Encryption?
Theme A
Technology That Has to Earn Our Trust
How can technology protect people without creating a new problem in the process?
01
Which AI Risk Should We Fix First?
02
How Can You Turn Your Phone into a Hidden Camera Detector?
03
What Happens When Quantum Computing Meets Today’s Encryption?
Theme A
Technology That Has to Earn Our Trust
How can technology protect people without creating a new problem in the process?
01
Which AI Risk Should We Fix First?
02
How Can You Turn Your Phone into a Hidden Camera Detector?
03
What Happens When Quantum Computing Meets Today’s Encryption?
Theme B
Mind, Brain, and Machines
What can science measure about the mind, and when does a neat number hide a messy reality?
04
Can We Put the Mind on a Number Scale?
05
Can Trauma Be Biologically Passed Down Across Generations?
06
Do Large Language Models Think, or Are They Just Very Good at Looking Like They Do?
Theme B
Mind, Brain, and Machines
What can science measure about the mind, and when does a neat number hide a messy reality?
04
Can We Put the Mind on a Number Scale?
05
Can Trauma Be Biologically Passed Down Across Generations?
06
Do Large Language Models Think, or Are They Just Very Good at Looking Like They Do?
Theme B
Mind, Brain, and Machines
What can science measure about the mind, and when does a neat number hide a messy reality?
04
Can We Put the Mind on a Number Scale?
05
Can Trauma Be Biologically Passed Down Across Generations?
06
Do Large Language Models Think, or Are They Just Very Good at Looking Like They Do?
Theme C
Medicine Beyond Promising Ideas
How do promising ideas in biology and engineering become treatments that are safe enough to use?
07
What Is Holding Cancer Vaccines Back?
08
Do Popular Home Remedies Really Change Your Appearance?
09
Can Gut Bacteria Change the Course of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Theme C
Medicine Beyond Promising Ideas
How do promising ideas in biology and engineering become treatments that are safe enough to use?
07
What Is Holding Cancer Vaccines Back?
08
Do Popular Home Remedies Really Change Your Appearance?
09
Can Gut Bacteria Change the Course of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Theme C
Medicine Beyond Promising Ideas
How do promising ideas in biology and engineering become treatments that are safe enough to use?
07
What Is Holding Cancer Vaccines Back?
08
Do Popular Home Remedies Really Change Your Appearance?
09
Can Gut Bacteria Change the Course of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Theme D
Big Ideas Meet Real Science
An idea may sound brilliant until heat, energy, materials, or bad data enter the room.
10
Can an AI Data Center Work in Space?
11
How Can We Mine Old Electronics Without Making a New Mess?
12
How Can Athletes Use Math to Enhance Their Performance?
Theme D
Big Ideas Meet Real Science
An idea may sound brilliant until heat, energy, materials, or bad data enter the room.
10
Can an AI Data Center Work in Space?
11
How Can We Mine Old Electronics Without Making a New Mess?
12
How Can Athletes Use Math to Enhance Their Performance?
Theme D
Big Ideas Meet Real Science
An idea may sound brilliant until heat, energy, materials, or bad data enter the room.
10
Can an AI Data Center Work in Space?
11
How Can We Mine Old Electronics Without Making a New Mess?
12
How Can Athletes Use Math to Enhance Their Performance?
Theme E
Economic Systems Under Pressure
Economic systems do not affect everyone in the same way, especially when conditions become difficult.
13
What Happens If the World Needs Fewer Dollars?
14
Can We Measure What Happens When Noncompetes Are Restricted?
15
How Much Debt Can an Emerging Market Carry?
Theme E
Economic Systems Under Pressure
Economic systems do not affect everyone in the same way, especially when conditions become difficult.
13
What Happens If the World Needs Fewer Dollars?
14
Can We Measure What Happens When Noncompetes Are Restricted?
15
How Much Debt Can an Emerging Market Carry?
Theme E
Economic Systems Under Pressure
Economic systems do not affect everyone in the same way, especially when conditions become difficult.
13
What Happens If the World Needs Fewer Dollars?
14
Can We Measure What Happens When Noncompetes Are Restricted?
15
How Much Debt Can an Emerging Market Carry?
Theme F
History and Philosophy of Real Science
Science and technology change lives, raising questions about values, truth, and what makes knowledge useful.
16
Which Technology Has Contributed Most to Women’s Freedom?
17
Can Scientific Research Be Value-Free? And Should Science Try to Be Value-Free?
18
Is It More Important for a Scientific Model to Be True or to Be Useful?
Theme F
History and Philosophy of Real Science
Science and technology change lives, raising questions about values, truth, and what makes knowledge useful.
16
Which Technology Has Contributed Most to Women’s Freedom?
17
Can Scientific Research Be Value-Free? And Should Science Try to Be Value-Free?
18
Is It More Important for a Scientific Model to Be True or to Be Useful?
Theme F
History and Philosophy of Real Science
Science and technology change lives, raising questions about values, truth, and what makes knowledge useful.
16
Which Technology Has Contributed Most to Women’s Freedom?
17
Can Scientific Research Be Value-Free? And Should Science Try to Be Value-Free?
18
Is It More Important for a Scientific Model to Be True or to Be Useful?