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The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
This fall, the new luddites are rising
 • Brian Merchant
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The killing of Charlie Kirk and the end of the "global town square"
On the state of X, AI "enhancements", and the balkanization of Twitter into anti-social media.
 • Brian Merchant
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Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
 • Brian Merchant
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One of the last, best hopes for saving the open web and a free press is dead
The Google ruling is a disaster. Let the AI slop flow and the writers, journalists and creators get squeezed.
 • Brian Merchant
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A $500 billion tech company's core software product is encouraging child suicide
It sounds horrific. It should. Let's be clear about the material circumstances of what's happening rather than handwaving about 'the dangers of AI'
 • Brian Merchant
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Ground the choppers
The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.
 • Brian Merchant
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AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or…
 • Brian Merchant
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How California feels about AI
Spoiler: Not great. Plus, how AI is raising our electricity bills, the chatbot therapist that failed to intervene in a suicide, and what lays behind…
 • Brian Merchant
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