our Twitter (X) feedView our Youtube channelView our Instagram feedView our Substack feedView our Spotify feed We can’t predict the future of artificial intelligence, but we do know its origin: us. The models we use today were trained on unfathomably huge sums of human-generated text: our books and blogs, our science and myths, our jokes and lies. In the output of language models, we see glimpses of ourselves refracted through a strange new form of intelligence we’re only beginning to understand.
This issue is an attempt to make sense of those refractions — to use philosophy to turn over hard questions until we start to see them more clearly. AI will likely impact everything from the economy to the battlefield, but exactly how remains to be seen. As AI makes life more efficient, people are seeking out real-world community — and all its messiness.
China is mass-producing slop at a scale the world has never seen I thought China’s AI video boom was driven by creativity, innovation, and tech diffusion. My chatbot comforted me when I thought I was dying. AI is challenging the idea that relationships require two conscious minds.
The idea of a “permanent underclass” started as a meme. It’s tapping real anxieties in Silicon Valley. Journalist Namir Khaliq heads west for an inside look at how AI is upending young tech workers’ visions of the future. > I kind of expect my job to be automated by like 2032-ish, maybe sooner.
It’s kind of hands-off from there, right? AI hasn’t taken my writing job — but it is living rent-free in my head > I lost my original gig to AI, but now, in my new gig, I have to prove to AI that I’m not AI. Chatbots aren’t just flattering us.
They’re helping us decide what’s real. AI psychosis may be the most visible example of something much bigger and stranger. > Unlike previous technologies, AI chatbots not only appear in the content of our delusions but also confirm and help construct them. From robot dog fights to Victorian graveyards, historian Thomas Moynihan journeys into the city’s new avant-garde. > There’s suffering, but also sometimes delight, in alienation, including in AI’s infiltration into art.
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