The AI doomers are not making an argument. They’re selling a worldview.
You’ve probably seen this one before: first it looks like a rabbit. You’re totally sure: yes, that’s a rabbit! But ...
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What is the worst-case scenario for AI? California lawmakers want to know.
When it comes to AI, as California goes, so goes the nation. The biggest state in the US by population ...
A tournament tried to test how well experts could forecast AI progress. They were all wrong.
Two of the smartest people I follow in the AI world recently sat down to check in on how the ...
How AI is coming for your job
Colton Masi checked off every box in his quest to land a good job in the computer science industry after ...
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 ...
Mark Zuckerberg is burning billions to chase the holy grail of AI
Companies in the AI race are barreling toward a new goalpost: so-called superintelligence, or an AI model that can surpass ...
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 ...
What if your earbuds could read your mind?
For the past few months, when I really needed to get something done, I put on a special pair of ...
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 ...
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