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How Long Will A.I.’s ‘Slop’ Era Last?
Consumer-facing A.I. has become a nuisance. But the big breakthroughs may be on the horizon.
By David Wallace-Wells
Consumer-facing A.I. has become a nuisance. But the big breakthroughs may be on the horizon.
By David Wallace-Wells
The data that meters generate must be standardized and widely available to be useful. Right now it mostly isn’t.
By Michael E. Murray
Programmed to find the fastest route without consideration of literally anything else, driving apps endanger and infuriate us on a remarkably regular basis.
By Julia Angwin
A fiction writer challenges an A.I. chatbot to a duel.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
The leading companies are co-opting Silicon Valley’s traditional cycle of disruption.
By Mark Lemley and Matt Wansley
The Biden administration seems to be in denial about China’s staggering advantage.
By David Wallace-Wells
The TikTok law undermines America’s moral authority on maintaining open internet platforms.
By Nick Frisch and Dan Wang
The Cybertruck looks edgy, that’s for sure, but it has serious problems.
By Elizabeth Spiers
Sales of electric vehicles are sagging in part because they’re so dull to drive compared with their gas counterparts.
By Ezra Dyer
Cody Fry and Noah Kahan are among the artists who are wondering how the battle between Universal Music Group and the social media platform might affect them.
By Madison Malone Kircher
In our focus on protecting the present and future from A.I., we have forgotten about the urgent need to protect the past.
By Jacob N. Shapiro and Chris Mattmann
Agencies should be required to provide verifiable evidence that the tools they use will not cause harm.
By Joy Buolamwini and Barry Friedman
The jobs require advanced skills but not necessarily advanced degrees, especially in emerging high-tech fields like A.I., electric vehicles and robotics.
Blaming social media for all kinds of social ills is more convenient for politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation.
By Zeynep Tufekci
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For me, the journey began when I asked ChatGPT who I was.
By Vauhini Vara
Now that Sam Altman’s back, will he be able to maintain a balance between safety and the profit motive?
By David Brooks
Default settings on devices allow the tech industry to keep collecting and using data as it wants.
By Zeynep Tufekci
Vast swaths of the cryptocurrency industry, including FTX, are propped up by pumping up the price of a token with no real value behind it.
By Molly White
The justices should remember that the First Amendment’s highest purpose is to protect the speech that’s necessary to democracy.
By Jameel Jaffer
Why the development of artificial intelligence might result in greater pollution of our digital public spaces.
By Julia Angwin
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