Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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The AI Industry Is Radicalizing
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The Next Big Thing Is Still … Smart Glasses
A computer for your face—now with AI. What could go wrong?
The Playwright in the Age of AI
Ayad Akhtar’s new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.
Does AI Actually Understand Language?
The world through the eyes of a chatbot.
AI Is a Language Microwave
Easy, convenient, and far from perfect
Malcolm Gladwell, Meet Mark Zuckerberg
The writer’s insistence on ignoring the web is an even bigger blind spot today than it was when The Tipping Point came out.
High School Is Becoming a Cesspool of Sexually Explicit Deepfakes
AI-generated child-sexual-abuse images are flooding the web.
OpenAI Takes Its Mask Off
Another restructure, and the clearest signal yet of what the company really is
AI Could Still Wreck the Presidential Election
Regulators have largely taken a hands-off approach to the use of AI in political ads—and the consequences may be severe.
The Trump Posts You Probably Aren’t Seeing
His Truth Social posts are even worse than you think.
For Now, There’s Only One Good Way to Power AI
Chatbots are saving America’s nuclear industry.