Staying true to form, this year's list includes technologies that may not be on your radar but should be – from nanozymes and generative watermarking to treating neurodegenerative disease with GLP-1's
Tools to combating or detecting misinformation are what are now highly needed. People without any sort of ethics are creating fake news using AI tools for voice, text, and video and those creations will soon hurt someone.
I agree - an increasingly serious challenge. I suspect the answer is multifaceted - as well as detection (and consequences), there also has to be a shift in social norms and behaviors, and awareness of the harm that could (and is) being caused!
Great summary. Interested to see AI taking a back seat (although obviously AI methodologies were used in the ideation/design steps as well as development of most of these technologies). Comparing 2025 to 2023./2024 also shows how biology is starting to work its way into more and more solutions.
Tools to combating or detecting misinformation are what are now highly needed. People without any sort of ethics are creating fake news using AI tools for voice, text, and video and those creations will soon hurt someone.
I agree - an increasingly serious challenge. I suspect the answer is multifaceted - as well as detection (and consequences), there also has to be a shift in social norms and behaviors, and awareness of the harm that could (and is) being caused!
Great summary. Interested to see AI taking a back seat (although obviously AI methodologies were used in the ideation/design steps as well as development of most of these technologies). Comparing 2025 to 2023./2024 also shows how biology is starting to work its way into more and more solutions.