
AI
How to stop a rogue AI
Grok went full Nazi, and Elon Musk gave it a promotion. But there may still be ways to fight back.
AI
Grok went full Nazi, and Elon Musk gave it a promotion. But there may still be ways to fight back.
Surveillance
A popular new idea for safeguarding the web ranges from "'somewhat privacy violating' to 'authoritarian nightmare.'"
Deception
A lack of moderation and a flood of clout-chasing accounts has turned the platform into "4chan 2."
AI
A government scramble to build the tiny electrical components that form the bedrock of modern life.
AI
A new wave of selfie-generating chatbots, made in our own images, end up revealing how much humanity they leave behind.
AI
The secretive cults of personality that run Silicon Valley's biggest stars.
Deception
“Feeling pretty today :).”
AI
"These things lie to you. They mislead you. They pull you down false paths ... and, if you mispronounce them, demons come to eat you.”
AI
He won a prize for his AI-generated, neo-Renaissance print. Or was he just ushering in "the death of artistry ... right before our eyes?"
AI
A gruesome facial recognition campaign targeting Russian mothers was, as one Ukrainian wrote, “the only way to stop all this madness."
AI
“It’s pseudoscience. It’s a license to discriminate. And the people whose lives and opportunities are literally being shaped by these systems don’t have any chance to weigh in.”
AI
"The last thing you want it to do is talk. Because if you talk, people think they can talk back."
Infowar
“We don’t have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true."
AI
"The Internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself."
Modern life
“Social media shows a person’s character. So why did she come in at a 2 and not a 1?”