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.
Artificial Intelligence
The dawn of a new machine age.
The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right?
Its turn to AI could be an escape hatch for a company with nothing to lose.
AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America’s Streets
The car industry says it has an answer for drivers wary of going electric.
The Last Frontier of Machine Translation
Don’t ask a bot to translate a book.
There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI
Transparency isn’t enough to democratize the technology.
The Year We Embraced Our Destruction
In 2023, fears about AI run amok commingled with memes about an allegedly deadly lemonade.
Building AI Safely Is Getting Harder and Harder
A leading AI data set reportedly contained images of child sexual abuse. Don’t be surprised.
You Can’t Truly Be Friends With an AI
Just because a relationship with a chatbot feels real, that doesn’t mean it is.
ChatGPT Is Turning the Internet Into Plumbing
What does life online look like filtered through a bot?
AI Astrology Is Getting a Little Too Personal
Cryptic life guidance is one thing. Telling me to ditch my therapist is another.
AI’s ‘Fog of War’
How can institutions protect Americans against a technology no one fully understands?
Generative AI’s iPhone Moment
Google’s long-awaited Gemini model shows that the technology is losing its magic.
One Year In, ChatGPT’s Legacy Is Clear
The technology is less important than the ideas it represents.