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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. It’s a Weird Time for Driverless Cars
The robotaxis now hitting American streets are troubling and amazing all at once.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Internet’s Next Great Power Suck
AI’s carbon emissions are about to be a problem.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI
Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Before a Bot Steals Your Job, It Will Steal Your Name
The future of AI looks a lot like Tessa, Ernie, and Amy.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … Can an AI Save a Life?
Michael spent years fighting isolation, depression, and despair. Then he met Sam. Then Sam changed.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The AI Crackdown Is Coming
Five ways for Washington to hold Silicon Valley accountable
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Here Comes the Second Year of AI College
Universities still aren’t sure whether to embrace the technology or ban it.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … Tech Companies’ Friendly New Strategy to Destroy One Another
Meta has decided that it’s time to open up the internet’s walled gardens. Be wary.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic America Already Has an AI Underclass
Search engines, ChatGPT, and other AI tools wouldn’t function without an army of contractors. Now those workers say they’re underpaid and mistreated.
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Illustration by Ricardo Rey Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating?
The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence
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Photograph by Ian Allen for The Atlantic The Real Lesson From The Making of the Atomic Bomb
A generation of AI researchers treat Richard Rhodes’s seminal book like a Bible as they develop technology with the potential to remake—or ruin—our world.
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The Atlantic A Voicebot Just Left Me Speechless
Generative AI has solved a problem that has plagued my voice assistants for years.
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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Learn a Foreign Language Before It’s Too Late
AI translators may seem wondrous but they also erode a major part of what it is to be human.
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Illustration by The Atlantic Google’s New Search Tool Could Eat the Internet Alive
Will searchbots put me out of a job?
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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Wimbledon’s AI Announcer Was Inevitable
Sports commentary has long been trending toward vanilla broadcasters. Why not have bots finish the job?
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Supreme Court Killed the College-Admissions Essay
The end of affirmative action will pressure high schoolers to write about their race through formulaic and belittling narrative tropes.
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Venice Gordon for The Atlantic The Monk Who Thinks the World Is Ending
Can Buddhism fix AI?
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. AI Is an Existential Threat to Itself
Generative-AI programs may eventually consume material that was created by other machines—with disastrous consequences.
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AI-Generated Junk Is Flooding Etsy
Coloring books, stickers, mugs, and T-shirts are being pumped out by AI-assisted hustlers.
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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The AI Mona Lisa Explains Everything
Depending on how you look at it, generative AI is either astonishingly powerful or totally pointless.
