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AI’s giant pool of hype
In Tuesday’s episode, novelist Bruce Holsinger imagined the moral fallout of an autonomous car crash in his new book Culpability. Today, we leave fiction behind and ask a more urgent question: Can we…
Published on 1 month ago
Examining AI’s ‘Culpability’
What happens when an algorithm doesn’t just crunch data, but reshapes morality? In his new novel Culpability — an Oprah Book Club pick — Bruce Holsinger explores how AI collides with family, justice,…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Cloudy with a chance of algorithms
Tech giants say artificial intelligence can outsmart the storm, predicting tomorrow’s weather faster than ever. We talk to Paris Perdikaris of the University of Pennsylvania about a new tension: fore…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Forecast, interrupted
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of weather forecasting — spotting storms sooner, warning us faster, and increasing the potential to save lives. But cuts to NOAA and the National Weathe…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The GoLaxy Papers: Inside China’s AI persona army
Leaked Chinese documents from a company called GoLaxy reveal a chilling new playbook for information war: an army of A.I. personas, engineered to look like us, think like us… and win our trust. Vande…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The scientist we sent away
Visa denials. Frozen grants. Whispers of disloyalty. It all feels strangely familiar. This week: the story of Qian Xuesen—an exiled Chinese scientist who once helped America win a war, only to be dri…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Cyber attacks may have us seeing double
For decades, the U.S. has led the world in cyber innovation. But when it comes to resilience — the ability to withstand and recover from an attack — we’ve fallen dangerously behind. Anne Neuberger, f…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The scam next door
Scams aren’t always loud. They don’t always come with pop-ups, typos, or promises of instant riches. The most effective ones whisper and tap into our better angels. And once they’re done that… they h…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The veterans who worry Putin
The Kremlin has mastered controlling the message online. But now, tens of thousands of soldiers are coming home from Ukraine with stories the state can’t erase. Kateryna Stepanenko, a Russia analyst …
Published on 2 months ago
The internet Putin always wanted
The Kremlin claims it’s slowing mobile internet to keep Ukrainian drones at bay. But that’s just the cover story. What’s really happening is Vladimir Putin’s long-imagined plan for a walled-off Russi…
Published on 2 months ago