The life-or-death case for self-driving cars
I have some bad news: You are almost certainly a worse driver than you think you are. Humans drive distracted. ...
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OpenAI’s nonprofit structure was supposed to protect you. What went wrong?
A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!Right now, OpenAI is something unique ...
The real argument artists should be making against AI
Every artist I know is furious. The illustrators, the novelists, the poets — all furious. These are people who have ...
The rise of chatbot “friends”
Can you truly be friends with a chatbot? If you find yourself asking that question, it’s probably too late. In ...
Are Elon Musk’s China ties a national security risk?
Elon Musk has opinions on how a lot of the world’s countries should be run. He has weighed in on ...
The Elon Musk company you should be worried about right now
The next phase of Elon Musk’s plan to entangle his companies with the workings of the federal government is well ...
The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?
There’s a thought experiment that has taken on almost mythic status among a certain group of technologists: If you build ...
Meta’s brain-to-text tech is here. We are not remotely ready.
Elon Musk has arguably been the boldest broligarch when it comes to brain-machine interfaces. But Mark Zuckerberg is hot on ...
AI can use your computer now. Should it?
The first time I heard about AI agents, I thought they could monitor your computer use, anticipate your needs, and ...
Using ChatGPT to write an email? Sure. But an obituary?
When his grandmother died about two years ago, Jebar King, the writer of his family, was tasked with drafting her ...
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