Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara, a contributing writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, is the author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.

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  1. ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism

    OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate “innovation,” contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means.

    An old desktop computer with a rainbow projecting from the screen on a field of pink
    Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic
  2. Why So Many People Are Seduced by ChatGPT

    What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a fictional character without an author.

    A photo illustration of a robotic white face sculpted into a blue book
    Illustration by Jonelle Afurong / The Atlantic. Sources: Sebastian Kaulitzki / Science Photo Library / Getty; studiocasper / Getty.