The Flip-Phone Cleanse
I spent a month with a group of people who aspire to a state of offline bliss.
Artificial Intelligence
The dawn of a new machine age.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Endgame
The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.
Is Hurry the Great Enemy of Spiritual Life?
Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive audience by encouraging his followers to free themselves from the gnawing sense that there is always more to do.
The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right?
Its turn to AI could be an escape hatch for a company with nothing to lose.
Of God and Machines
The future of artificial intelligence is neither utopian nor dystopian—it’s something much more interesting.
Google’s AI Is Something Even Stranger Than Conscious
Machine sentience is overrated.
Google’s ‘Sentient’ Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future
The next generation of AI will put the pathetic fallacy on steroids.
A Small-Scale Sci-Fi Film That Asks the Genre’s Biggest Question
After Yang takes on an important quandary: the disappearing boundary between machines and mankind.
The Singularity Is Here
Artificially intelligent advertising technology is poisoning our societies.
The Search for Intelligent Life Heads Underwater
Researchers are using AI to try to communicate with whales.
Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse
A conversation with the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
The Third Revolution in Warfare
First there was gunpowder. Then nuclear weapons. Next: artificially intelligent weapons.
Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion
There is no good evidence that facial expressions reveal a person’s feelings. But Big Tech companies want you to believe otherwise.
The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite
Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.