artificial intelligence

Dale McGowan
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The human archipelago

Like most modern toxins, AI's ability to isolate us proceeds with our enthusiastic permission.

DeepSeek / Dale McGowan
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Our political future, according to DeepSeek AI

The international AI game is on.

Dale McGowan
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Hyperreal: The next-level escape from the human condition

Our species-long efforts to escape reality are headed to an unreal place.

ChatGPT
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Looking back at 2025: An AI fever dream

The editors at OnlySky asked ChatGPT to imagine looking back at 2025 after it happens, combining known and likely factors with plausible black swans. This is the unedited result.

Dale McGowan
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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.

M L Clark
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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.

Shawn Hardin / Dale McGowan
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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.

Adam Lee
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Model collapse—the end of the road for AI

AI is developing the same problem as cousins who marry—and for the same reason.

Adam Lee
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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.

Jonathan MS Pearce / Benjamin Wilson-Mawer
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'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.

Dale McGowan
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The disorienting weirdness of GPT's hallucinations

We just aren't wired to grok this kind of interaction.

Russell Glasser
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How A.I. is wrecking the online experience

Our shiny new toy is solving exactly the wrong problem.