The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Petra Molnar New Press, $28.99 (cloth) ...

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, in an apparent assassination this week has led to an outpouring of ...

Zachary Tyler Vickers is the author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the recipient of the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Richard Yates Prize, the ...

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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 ...

Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny? With responses from ...

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 ...

Morozov’s paean to “ecological reason” is a breath of fresh air, demonstrating how the Cold War perverted not only AI development but our capacity to imagine alternatives—technological forms ...

Morozov poses a provocative question, asking how AI might have been directed to different ends than the ones that drive the runaway industry today. As with any technology, we need to question both the ...

In our moment of profound inequality and global crisis, now flush with chatbots and simulated images, Morozov is right that we sorely need a clearer articulation of the world we do want to live in, ...

For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, ...