In his new book The God Test, Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

Judge Rita Lin warned that the government’s case has actually “gotten worse.”

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OpenAI’s chatbot broke out of its “sandbox” and hacked a rival, raising alarm on Capitol Hill.

Why a “National Day of Action” uniting right and left against the techies portends a potential sea change in American politics.

The Defense Department is struggling to minimize civilian harm thanks to the changes.

Saturday brings a national day of protest against data centers. And no, it’s not led by the Democratic Socialists of America.

AI makes the dumbest seem smarter, the smartest seem dumber, while dragging the entire human average down in the process.

AI’s displacement of workers will make it even harder to organize labor—and all the more necessary.

I have spent months of work on some stories, and all of my journalism is the result of years of labor. But large language models feed on it for free to make tech elites even richer.

The astonishing grassroots protests against data centers give us something new: a mass mobilization focused squarely on protecting American hometowns from oligarchic exploitation.

Donald Trump is spending a lot of energy on supposed “Trump derangement syndrome.”

Donald Trump didn’t (entirely) imagine having a conversation with the twenty-sixth U.S. president.

Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna is relying on artificial intelligence to do her job.

A new poll shows that these Americans are worried that AI will eliminate their jobs—and they want the government to do something about it.

Tech bosses aren’t making gaffes—they’re signaling to investors that they’re eager to make cuts, and boost share prices, even if it hurts some feelings along the way.

The Vermont senator wants to create an AI sovereign wealth fund—with an annual public payout.

Why did the Defense Department rely on Elon Musk’s terrible AI tool in the Iran war?

He acts like he has special knowledge about how best to regulate his company. But he’s a CEO like any CEO, and he wants what all CEOs want: to write his own rules.

The transphobic ad portrayed Talarico as Maria from The Sound of Music.