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The Last Word on AI and the Atom Bomb
In some ways, it’s hard to understand how this misalignment happened. We…
The World Is Toxic. Welcome to the Metabolic Era
Kim Kardashian’s newest range of products, launched in late 2022—post SKIMS shapewear,…
‘World of Warcraft’ Has a Lot to Teach the Twitter Clones
Another week, another catastrophic failure of policy at Twitter that’s being eagerly…
Rising Interest Rates Might Herald the End of the Open Internet
The open internet once seemed inevitable. Now, as global economic woes mount…
Meta Ran a Giant Experiment in Governance. Now It’s Turning to AI
Late last month, Meta quietly announced the results of an ambitious, near-global…
Beware the Digital Whiteboard
In 2003, the data visualization expert Edward Tufte traced that year’s Columbia…
Give Every AI a Soul—or Else
What about cyber entities who operate below some arbitrary level of ability?…
Let People Collect Sperm From the Dead
Critics argue that even if someone wanted to have biological children—for instance,…
Inmates Need Internet to Prepare for Life After Prison
I’ve been in federal prison for 17 years. During that time, I…