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Artificial Intelligence
Tyler Cowen: The Future Belongs to AI Maniacs
National security, finance, and every aspect of life will soon be disrupted by self-taught masters of the leading AI models. Every country and…
Tyler Cowen
I’m a Brown University Professor. Half My Students Are Cheating.
What alarmed me most wasn’t the suspected misconduct. It was how reluctant my university seemed to confront it.
Roberto Serrano
Two Drinks with. . . Steve Bannon’s ‘Transhumanist Editor’
The anti-AI activist says he is “proudly” in the tradition of the Satanic Panic—and that it’s everyone’s job to save America from our AI-slop future.
Suzy Weiss
AI Isn’t Human. Stop Talking About It Like It Is.
Anthropic’s latest research reveals how Claude reasons internally, but it offers no evidence that AI has the kind of consciousness or experience that…
Spencer Klavan
All the Details on Taylor Swift’s Gaudy Wedding
Plus: Paris Hilton’s quest for rich-kid justice, death doulas, and why Americans don’t care about the World Cup.
Suzy Weiss
40M
AI Is Recovering the Ancient World’s Lost Library
For centuries, scrolls burned to a crisp by Vesuvius seemed permanently sealed. Now AI is helping scholars recover books the ancient world thought lost…
Spencer Klavan
Two Drinks with. . . The Trump Adviser Headed to OpenAI
Dean Ball was advising the White House on emerging technology—and this week he took a job at the frontier lab. Of the future, he says: ‘A lot of crazy…
River Page
What the New AI Millionaires Are Spending It On. The Dad Divide. Plus. . .
Trump’s strategic defeat. Will this Libertarian flip Texas blue? And much more.
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What the New AI Millionaires Are Spending It On
Tech giants SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have either gone public or will soon. I asked the people who’ll benefit: What are you going to buy with the…
Suzy Weiss
I Gave a Robot Access to My Apartment. Plus. . .
Freya India on the commodification of Christianity. Why are college math professors having to review fractions? An evening with Zohran Mamdani’s…
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Training Robots In My Apartment
Two college kids showed up with Clorox, and cameras on their heads—and filmed themselves cleaning. The footage will train robots. I feel awkward about…
Suzy Weiss
Tyler Cowen and Josh Hawley on AI. Caitlin Flanagan on Jill Biden. Plus. . .
Why we can’t quit the Kennedys. John McWhorter on what followed wokeness. And more.
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