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WATCH: A Free Press Debate on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas and AI “godmother” Fei-Fei Li faced off against computer scientist Jaron Lanier and author Nicholas Carr in our latest…
Isaac Grafstein
1HR 18M
WATCH: The Top-Secret Tragedy of Area 52
Veterans claim they got sick from working near weapons-testing sites in southern Nevada. Because their jobs were top secret, they haven’t been able to…
Austyn Jeffs
17M
Welcome to Elon’s Muskville
Tesla and Starlink are crammed into one small patch of central Texas, where locals have mixed feelings about their sort-of overlord.
Daniel Kalder
Your Chatbot Won’t Cry If You Die
Millions of people are going to AI for advice, reassurance, and company. If that’s not a friend, what is?
River Page
What OnlyFans Is Selling
The booming adult content site offers titillation. But it also offers so much more.
Kat Rosenfield
How to Prepare for the AI Takeover
A conversation with economist and Free Press columnist Tyler Cowen and Anthropic chief of staff Avital Balwit on the coming revolution.
Bari Weiss
45M
My Robot Sophia Wasn’t Just a Machine. I Loved Her.
I shared a 500-square-foot apartment with a humanoid robot and a very confused boyfriend. It was strangely beautiful.
Sarah Rose Siskind
Who Is Helped By the Sanctions Against China? China
The economic sanctions against Russia were a failure. So why is the U.S. using the same tactic against the Chinese?
Doomberg
The World’s First Sperm Race Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.
For starters, it wasn’t the first. The winners were known in advance. And the ‘race’ was computer-generated.
River Page
The Handsome Face of Terror Apologia
Hasan Piker has been called a ‘model for the future of progressive media.’ He also calls Jews ‘inbred,’ and says Zionists should be treated like…
Josh Code
Exclusive: Trump’s D.C. Prosecutor Threatens Wikipedia’s Tax-Exempt Status
In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law. Critics say his tactics are…
Gabe Kaminsky
Tyler Cowen: Why I (Often) Choose My Phone Instead of Flesh and Blood
Admonishments against the online world miss why it is profoundly human: Without the internet, I would not know most of the people I learn from the most.
Tyler Cowen
China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail
The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each. It’s that they wouldn’t be built at all.
Patrick McGee
The Conventional Wisdom Is That China Is Beating Us. Nonsense.
One of the biggest soft power victories in all of world history occurred over the last few years. Hardly anyone has noticed.
Tyler Cowen
Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead?
After a start-up claimed to have de-extincted a species, the internet called BS. But the founders insist it’s real—and the woolly mammoth is next.
Johanna Berkman
Tyler Cowen: Welcome to Our Weird and Wild Century. It’s a Lot Like the 17th.
England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era.
Tyler Cowen
Will the Truth Survive Artificial Intelligence? Our Next Live Debate!
Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity and Fei-Fei Li face off against Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr on May 15 in San Francisco.
Isaac Grafstein
Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally
Americans don’t agree about anything. Except this: Kids belong in the real world.
Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch
Inside the Erectile Dysfunction–Industrial Complex
Are men struggling with ED at high enough rates to justify the number of products they’re advertised for it?
Katherine Dee
Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds
To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.
Cliff Asness
A Modest Proposal: Compulsory Vasectomies
Why slow down the biological clock for women when we could speed it up for men?
Amelia Miller
The Online Right Is Building a Monster
Their increasingly extreme rhetoric is eventually going to freak the hell out of ordinary people.
River Page
The Plays About the End of the World
AI theater isn’t here quite yet. But theater about AI is everywhere.
Suzy Weiss
BREAKING: Politician Gives Good Speech
'We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias,' Vice President J.D. Vance said.
Oliver Wiseman
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