AI Will Understand Humans Better Than Humans Do
Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world...
‘Double Standards and Hypocrisy’: The Dissent at Cisco Over the War in Gaza
Over the past year, Cisco publicly looked like one of the few tech companies that had avoided internal backlash over its response to the war in...
A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot
Eric Lander is a Big Science heavyweight. A geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician, he led the International Human Genome Project and is founding director of the...
Inside Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech’s Anti-Terrorism Group
The four tech giants have presided over the consortium since they announced it in 2016, when Western governments were berating them for allowing Islamic State to...
No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems
We already knew where OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stands on artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the human saga: It will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly beneficial. He has...
The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself
If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by...
Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP
This week Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. For months, the GOP-led committee has been on a...
Crypto’s Shiny New Political Machine
Amongst the sea of American flags and ubiquitous blue signs at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week prowled Jonathan Padilla, the “crypto guy.” Wearing...
Trump’s Crypto Embrace Could Be a Disaster for Bitcoin
Donald Trump is an unlikely crypto ally. The power of bitcoin, embodied in Satoshi Nakamoto’s founding document, is that it frees participants from murky assessments of...
Zombie Alt-Weeklies Are Stuffed With AI Slop About OnlyFans
Several of the most prominent alt-weekly newspapers in the United States are running search-engine-optimized listicles about porn performers, which appear to be AI-generated, alongside their editorial...