Is AI lying? (And other reader questions, answered.)
For the last few years, we’ve been asking Future Perfect newsletter readers what their biggest questions are. And while we ...
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
The Nvidia chip deal that has Trump officials threatening to quit
Whatever else can be said about the second Trump administration, it is always teaching me about parts of the Constitution ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s unbelievably bleak AI vision
Of all the many famous Steve Jobs stories that tech industry folks like to share, perhaps the single most famous ...
How the fight over what it means to be human has dramatically changed
Humans are the dominant species on a dying planet, and we’re still clinging to the idea that we can think ...
You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?
It’s a good time to be a highly in-demand AI engineer. To lure leading researchers away from OpenAI and other ...
Trump just handed China a major advantage on on AI
Late on Monday night, July 14, 2025, the ninth richest man in the world broke some momentous news: The US ...
Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come
From the beginning, Elon Musk has marketed Grok, the chatbot integrated into X, as the unwoke AI that would give ...
Is ChatGPT killing higher education?
What’s the point of college if no one’s actually doing the work?It’s not a rhetorical question. More and more students ...
AI systems could become conscious. What if they hate their lives?
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, ...
AI doesn’t have to reason to take your job
In 2023, one popular perspective on AI went like this: Sure, it can generate lots of impressive text, but it ...
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