AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
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The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
It involves 4chan, of all places.
Is Schoolwork Optional Now?
Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.
Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem
What happens when AI can hack everything?
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The Alien Intelligence in Your Pocket
Are you sure that chatbot isn’t alive?
The Machines Finding Life That Humans Can’t See
A suite of technologies are helping taxonomists speed up species identification.
ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father
My own private Frankenstein
The MAGA Media Takeover
Trump and his powerful friends are creating a dangerous moment for free speech.
Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
How chatbots keep you talking
AI’s Emerging Teen-Health Crisis
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises that parental controls and age verification are coming to ChatGPT—though the announcement is scant on specifics.
Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio: MAGA Has Figured Out How to ‘Play Dirty’
Inside the far-right network that is working to get people fired for what they say about Charlie Kirk
Grok’s Responses Are Only Getting More Bizarre
Elon Musk’s chatbot is a slow-motion train wreck.
AI Is Grown, Not Built
Nobody knows exactly what an AI will become. That’s very bad.
Something Is Very Wrong Online
The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.