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October 25, 2024
Arjun Byju
The “Godfather of AI” Predicted I Wouldn’t Have a Job. He Was Wrong.
Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton said that machine learning would outperform radiologists within five years. That was eight years ago. Now, thanks in part to doomers, we’re facing a historic labor shortage.
May 8, 2024
Jacob Silverman
The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.
Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.
December 20, 2023
Lincoln Michel
The Year That A.I. Came for Culture
The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.
November 15, 2023
Matt Ford
Silicon Valley’s Big A.I. Dreams Are Headed for a Copyright Crash
The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.
November 6, 2023
James Robins
Can a New Generation of Luddites Take Down A.I.?
Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.
July 31, 2023
Suzanne Nossel
Hollywood’s Fight Against A.I. Will Affect Us All
Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.
May 15, 2023
Grace Segers
Congress Is Racing to Catch Up With Artificial Intelligence
Lawmakers agree that the rapid evolution of this technology needs to be addressed—but they’re still getting up to speed on the details.
May 8, 2023
Thomas Geoghegan
The Best Safeguard Against Artificial Intelligence Is the Constitution
The president has the power to step in now before A.I. becomes a threat to national security.
March 30, 2023
Steve Israel
Here’s What Happened When ChatGPT Wrote to Elected Politicians
Cornell researchers used artificial intelligence to write advocacy emails to state legislators. The responses don’t bode well for democracy in the age of A.I.
May 26, 2016
Navneet Alang
Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
AI will make our devices obsolete. What does that mean for human relationships to technology?
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