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History & Society

Journalist Namir Khaliq heads west for an inside look at how AI is upending young tech workers’ visions of the future.

I kind of expect my job to be automated by like 2032-ish, maybe sooner. It’s kind of hands-off from there, right?

I lost my original gig to AI, but now, in my new gig, I have to prove to AI that I’m not AI.

Mind & Behavior

AI psychosis may be the most visible example of something much bigger and stranger.

Unlike previous technologies, AI chatbots not only appear in the content of our delusions but also confirm and help construct them.

History & Society

From robot dog fights to Victorian graveyards, historian Thomas Moynihan journeys into the city’s new avant-garde.

If our digitized world is artifice all the way down, why not embrace the strangeness?

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History & Society

“How could AI fit into a world in which everyone has the ability to have a joyful life? That is the fundamental question that I am interested in answering.”

AI isn’t a new thing that came sequentially after social media or after messaging. It’s built on top of a very particular business model and on top of those previous technologies.

Rather than our judgments of consciousness informing our moral attitudes, it seems that the reverse relationship holds.

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I think scaling up the current abilities of models is likely to yield what we would consider thinking.