You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?
It’s a good time to be a highly in-demand AI engineer. To lure leading researchers away from OpenAI and other
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A million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decision
The deadliest country in the world for young children is South Sudan — the United Nations estimates that about 1
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What drove the tech right’s — and Elon Musk’s — big, failed bet on Trump
I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I don’t know anyone who says they voted for
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The hidden stakes of letting AI tell us what we want to hear
A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here! Last week, OpenAI released a new update to
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America — and the media — needs a Covid reckoning
In the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the media did not exactly cover itself in glory. To quote
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China’s new AI agent Manus calls its own shots
Modern large language models are really good at a lot of tasks, like coding, essay writing, translation, and research. But
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How the Los Angeles fires highlight the challenge of disaster relief
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In defense of the washing machine
I write reasonably often about degrowth, the movement to save the world by shrinking the economy. Why? After all, it’s
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Shrinking the economy won’t save the planet
Could we solve climate change if we just accepted being dramatically poorer, forever? As I’ve written before, the answer is
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There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?
It’s the start of the school year, and thus the start of a fresh round of discourse on generative AI’s
