artificial intelligence
How movies get our future wrong—and right
There's a lot we can't know about the future. But films should at least include the things we know for sure.
Is AI art causing future shock or age-old economic anxiety?
The tech isn’t the problem. Our civic failure to grow along with it is.
Machines and meaning: AI's role in a humanist future
AI raises important questions about what it means to be human. It's time to have that conversation.
Model collapse—the end of the road for AI
AI is developing the same problem as cousins who marry—and for the same reason.
AI will be the death of the internet
The future of the internet is a lifeless wasteland. But what comes after that could be wild.
'Shut it all down': The ethics and risks of AI
A philosopher and an AI expert explore the potential pitfalls and benefits of artificial intelligence. An ongoing series.
The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations
We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.
How A.I. is wrecking the online experience
Our shiny new toy is solving exactly the wrong problem.
The personless apology
When it screws up, ChatGPT apologizes to me. It has the desired effect: I am defanged in the moment, willing to move on and trust again. But what is artificial remorse doing to the idea of the apology?
The lost humanity in AI medicine
As we rush into the arms of AI medicine, will compelling research on the importance of the patient-doctor relationship be ignored?
AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.
Our AI future: Don’t fear the Singularity
AI futurists assume that faster thinking automatically produces greater intelligence, leading to a Singularity of transcendent machine minds. But speed is the less important half of intelligence.