Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

The jobs apocalypse hasn’t arrived. Something else is happening instead.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

A.I. is everywhere, and it’s often hard to tell what’s even real.

We’re constantly told that Chinese advances would have catastrophic consequences. But the first to innovate is rarely the one who wins.

As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward.

Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today.

Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings?

After industry-wide calls for regulation, what’s concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions.

In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a little trickier.

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

So far, the proliferation of A.I. models such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising.

Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?

How drones and asymmetric warfare are upending the battlefield and what the U.S. military can do to adapt.

Few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic is making it even easier to determine if text was generated by Claude.

The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.

Democrats talk a lot about affordability. Could a message of prosperity be more powerful?

The environmental activist has launched a project to document community concerns about the boom in data-center construction across the U.S.

The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.

The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom.

Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the raw material that every major A.I. chatbot was trained on.