When does trying to have a healthier baby become eugenics-y?
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Tag: Emerging Tech
AI found a way to make middle school worse
There’s a lot to be anxious about as AI agents and bots get more integrated into every aspect of our ...
We’re worrying about the wrong AI apocalypse
Nearly two decades ago, a group of researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory ran a secret experiment, known as the ...
Elon Musk wants to put data centers in space. Should we let him?
During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember ...
The old tech that could help stop the next airborne pandemic
It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read ...
Is it love? Or is it an AI romance scam?
Happy Valentine’s Day. Don’t let romance scams — which ramp up around the holiday and are at an all-time high ...
What the latest viral AI apocalypse warning gets wrong
In a viral essay on X, “Something Big Is Happening,” Matt Shumer writes that the world is living through a ...
AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first
Some smart people think we’re witnessing another ChatGPT moment. This time, folks aren’t flipping out over an iPhone app that ...
Claude has an 80-page “soul document.” Is that enough to make it good?
Chatbots don’t have mothers, but if they did, Claude’s would be Amanda Askell. She’s an in-house philosopher at the AI ...
50,000 clandestine Starlink terminals are keeping Iranians in touch with the rest of the world
It’s difficult to know exactly what is happening in Iran since the government shut down the internet on January 8, ...
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