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Arthur Brooks: It’s 2028. AI Has Made You Much Happier.
The viral Citrini memo warned that artificial intelligence would crash the economy. But what if it does the opposite, freeing us from drudgery and…
Arthur Brooks
In the Pentagon Battle with Anthropic, We All Lose
AI companies and the government have followed informal principles to advance the industry and keep us safe. Pete Hegseth is putting that at risk.
Tyler Cowen
Will AI Doom Us All? The Market Can't Decide
The Citrini memo, a viral essay, terrified investors who can’t decide if AI means human doom or salvation.
Bethany McLean
Mark Zuckerberg’s Courtroom Reckoning
In a Los Angeles courtroom, he tried to combat claims that Meta wants to keep teens chained to its apps.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
You Are No Longer the Smartest Type of Thing on Earth
Rapidly advancing artificial intelligence means we may end up being one of the very last generations to remember what it was like for humans to be in…
Noah Smith
An AI Breakthrough that Will Go Down in History
If you think artificial intelligence has been advancing fast, just watch what happens as AIs start building their own code.
Tyler Cowen
How to Be Human
Go outside, say yes to things, be scared and excited and uncomfortable. Feel your hands shake before you speak, your legs ache after a long day, your…
Freya India
The Bots Are Building Their Own Society
On Moltbook, bots argue, philosophize, and conspire. Humanity is not yet in danger.
Tyler Cowen
Death Is Nothing to Be Feared
We walk backward into our own graves, so filled with denial, because we’ve lived not really thinking that death could one day happen to us.
Martin Shaw
Data Centers Are Not the Villain
The reason electric bills are rising isn’t data centers but years of disinvestment in power.
Emmet Penney
Avoiding Deportation? There’s an App for That.
Judge-tracking apps and social-media sleuthing help some immigrants navigate the Trump administration’s crackdown.
Madeleine Rowley
China’s Robots vs. America’s Chatbots
The U.S. could spend a trillion dollars on data centers and still lose the real AI war.
Patrick McGee
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