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.
The Real Lesson From The Making of the Atomic Bomb
A generation of AI researchers treat Richard Rhodes’s seminal book like a Bible as they develop technology with the potential to remake—or ruin—our world.
A Voicebot Just Left Me Speechless
Generative AI has solved a problem that has plagued my voice assistants for years.
Learn a Foreign Language Before It’s Too Late
AI translators may seem wondrous but they also erode a major part of what it is to be human.
Google’s New Search Tool Could Eat the Internet Alive
Will searchbots put me out of a job?
Wimbledon’s AI Announcer Was Inevitable
Sports commentary has long been trending toward vanilla broadcasters. Why not have bots finish the job?
The Supreme Court Killed the College-Admissions Essay
The end of affirmative action will pressure high schoolers to write about their race through formulaic and belittling narrative tropes.
The Monk Who Thinks the World Is Ending
Can Buddhism fix AI?
AI Is an Existential Threat to Itself
Generative-AI programs may eventually consume material that was created by other machines—with disastrous consequences.
AI-Generated Junk Is Flooding Etsy
Coloring books, stickers, mugs, and T-shirts are being pumped out by AI-assisted hustlers.
The AI Mona Lisa Explains Everything
Depending on how you look at it, generative AI is either astonishingly powerful or totally pointless.