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This past February, I noticed that one of the cameras at my parents’ apartment had gone dark. I scanned through the footage: backward quickly, until I saw my father shuffling about, like a stop-motion ...

Thoreau’s adage “beware of all enterprises that require new clothes” should perhaps be updated to “beware of all enterprises that require venture capital.” Morozov argues that AI itself has much to ...

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In September 2023, Joe Biden became the first sitting president to walk a picket line when he joined striking United Auto Workers in Wayne County, Michigan. A decade earlier, under the Obama ...

I’ve spent so many years among the Luddites—among oral histories, archived letters, and old newspaper articles about them—that there are scenes from their history that are so seared into my brain, ...

I confess I’ve become weary of reading about AI. I am tired of the self-serving mythologizing of its proponents. I am also tired of thinking about its horrific environmental impact, its potential for ...

I’m grateful for these thoughtful responses, many of which grapple with the central question of how to bring “AI’s missing Other” into existence. Before engaging with their specific proposals, however ...