
AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
Atlantic writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age.

Instagram’s Threads proves that social media is fated to repeat a cycle of life and death.

But why should anyone have to break the law to watch the Mets?

Sports commentary has long been trending toward vanilla broadcasters. Why not have bots finish the job?

We are stuck in battery purgatory.

Online communities dedicated to criticizing cars and the people who love them have developed an insult that … kind of makes sense.

The social network has never seen chaos quite like this.

The end of affirmative action will pressure high schoolers to write about their race through formulaic and belittling narrative tropes.

The retail giant is offering local businesses a side hustle delivering packages. Do we all eventually become couriers?

Telegram played a central role in Yevgeny Prigozhin’s revolt—and in so many other chaotic events that have defined recent history.

The virtual world, a strange cross between Burning Man and Neal Stephenson’s metaverse, marks its 20th anniversary with no true corporate competitor in sight.