human beings

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As artificial intelligence makes life frictionless, we risk removing the very frictions that keep human beings healthy: effort, challenge, learning and forward motion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Cindy may be the opposite of a sybarite, but she knows something about how human beings morph over time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

An American court can order their return, but as a practical matter, these human beings have essentially been disappeared.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

"This surprised me because I like animals and I feel proud to call myself one. I've never looked down upon them, so to call human beings animals is not, to me, degrading."

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Although human beings have been walking upright for millions of years, it was not until 25,000 years ago that our forebears invented art.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell