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August 2026: Where AI Is Headed in the Next 5 Years
Jim Shimabukuro examines six converging technological developments he argues are shaping AI’s trajectory through 2031, including the shift from AI…
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Autonomous Weapons Are Outrunning the Law That Governs Them
Professor Elliot Winter of Newcastle University examines the gap between rapidly advancing autonomous weapons systems and the international legal frameworks…
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‘AI Kill Switch Act’ Won’t Stop Rogue AI, But It Will Slow Down Innovation
Reason research fellow Reem Ibrahim examines the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, introduced by Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran…
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Stop Calling It AI Psychosis
Javier Bargas-Avila argues that the term ‘AI psychosis,’ increasingly used to describe executives making sweeping company-wide AI decisions based on…
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Two Critical Updates re: Astra and Mathematics
Gary Marcus revisits OpenAI’s celebrated ‘Astra’ mathematics results, noting that an Anthropic mathematician independently replicated roughly half of the reported…
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$1 Trillion Anthropic IPO Is a Go. Here’s Why I Won’t Touch It
Financial writer Rich Duprey argues investors should be wary of buying into Anthropic’s anticipated IPO despite its roughly $1 trillion…
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AI Can Predict Disaster, But It Can’t Save You
Catherine Nakalembe, who has spent over 15 years building predictive climate models from satellite data, argues that AI-driven disaster forecasting…
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Why Charlie Stross Still Won’t Use AI in His Fiction
Science fiction author Charlie Stross published an essay explaining why he uses no LLMs anywhere in his fiction writing or…
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Silicon, Not Software, Will Decide the AI Race
Economists Antonin Bergeaud and Robin Rivaton argue in Project Syndicate that the global AI competition has shifted from a contest…
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The Rise of the Military-Technology Complex
In an investigative essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Bernice Yeung traces how Silicon Valley’s AI companies have…
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AI Isn’t Killing Creativity — We’re Pointing It At The Wrong Things
Vicki Phillips argues that AI does not inherently kill creativity, and that the real problem lies in how it is…
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Op-ed: Personalized AI is Rerunning the Worst Part of Social Media’s Playbook
In a guest column, Miranda Bogen of the Center for Democracy and Technology argues that increasingly personalized AI systems risk…