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The 25 forecasts we made in 2025, revisited.
Americans’ feelings about artificial intelligence are complicated.
From a CRISPR baby to a closing ozone hole, 5 actually good things from 2025.
David Sacks, Trump’s go-to adviser on all things tech, may help decide who wins the AI race between the US and China.
Silicon Valley is racing to build a god — without understanding what makes a good one.
The world is on the precipice of a technological revolution. But how much disruption can a society take?
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
Love, actually…is a chatbot?
It’s been a long road to ensure that testing on human subjects is ethical. AI could send us backward.
China hawks were no match for the world’s most valuable company.
AI is causing electricity prices to surge. No one is happy about it.
The entire stock market, and therefore the entire economy, depends on it maintaining pretty impossible growth metrics.
What history can teach us about the AI job apocalypse.
Why has Jensen Huang, co-founder of Nvidia, the hardware of the AI boom, buddied up with Trump?
How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable trap.
It’s more subtle than Skynet.
Resistance to exploitative AI starts with building a movement.
How Chinese hackers tricked Claude into hacking governments and companies all on its own.
If you don’t want a synthesized AI voice outliving you, get a lawyer now.
Movies like A House of Dynamite get a lot right. But they’re missing an important danger.
The world after the AI bubble, explained.
What the billionaire’s new encyclopedia tells us about the future of knowledge.
AI can help create bioweapons. So can we use AI to create safeguards?
ChatGPT Atlas is a glimpse into the future, even if it doesn’t work right.
Electric bills were already rising. AI data centers are making it worse.
If you believe there’s a soul trapped inside ChatGPT, I have good news for you.
In this scary economy, everything is computer.
AI-generated video slop is filling feeds. It’s time to learn how we can tell if something is real.
Is Tilly Norwood a threat to the film industry? It’s complicated.
OpenAI still isn’t doing enough to protect young people.
It depends on who you ask.
What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong.
New genetic testing offers us the chance to create superbabies. It can come with unintended consequences.
Why current AI usage data might mislead us about the future.
The do’s and don’ts of asking an AI for health advice.
How rational is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s prophecy?
Everyone underestimated AI progress. Now what?