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What if A.I. Is Just a ‘Normal Technology’?
At the center of the country’s debates over artificial intelligence is a simple but hard question: What kind of technology is this?Is A.I. a kind of …
11 hours ago
‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.
Last week, David Robinson resigned from OpenAI. He’d been in charge of writing the safety reports for new models and came to believe that OpenAI and …
2 days, 11 hours ago
Is the World Getting Uglier?
President Trump and the modern right have a theory of beauty. You see it in Trump’s gilded Oval Office, his imagined arch and his executive order req…
1 week ago
Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.
Bill Gates thinks A.I. alarmism hasn’t gone far enough. He believes the years ahead will be marred by catastrophic cyberattacks, bio-terrorism and ma…
1 week, 3 days ago
What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, has been one of the most argued-over candidates this election cycle. If he wins, h…
2 weeks ago
Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers
Jensen Huang might just be the single most influential person in artificial intelligence today.Huang is the chief executive of Nvidia, the company th…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
We’re Not Losing Control of A.I. We’re Giving It Away.
Fears of out-of-control A.I. have reached a boil over the last few weeks, and several industry executives have called for a coordinated slowdown of A…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The ‘But China!’ Dilemma Driving the A.I. Race
America is waking up to the critical risks posed by artificial intelligence. But every conversation about possible regulation tends to hit the same w…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Francis Fukuyama on Trump, China and the Legacy of 9/11
Francis Fukuyama's “The End of History and the Last Man” is one of the most insightful books for understanding the strangeness and instability of thi…
4 weeks ago
What ‘Hyperpolitics’ Explains About This Era
Behind the intense political movements of the last decade, from Trumpism to wokeness and back again, there’s a strange and erratic rhythm. Movements …
1 month ago