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The AI Land Grab Begins
Instead of nightmare scenarios, let's start by scrutinizing how generative AI is going to change how we live today.
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Micah L. Sifry
Traffic: How America got Facebookified in the 2010s
The best minds of a whole generation did what?
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Micah L. Sifry
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Is the AI Wolf Really at the Door?
Trying to think clearly about the unthinkable. If a super-intelligent AI is on our doorstep, many well-intentioned attempts to regulate it or control it…
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Micah L. Sifry
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Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right
While self-styled tech ethicists Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin warn that AI is about to end human agency, a Biden AI advisory panel stacked with…
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Micah L. Sifry
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Dreams (or Nightmares) of Civil War
Jeff Sharlet's travels through post-January 6th America reveal a nation sliding toward catastrophe, or is it catharsis? Plus more parsing of AI hype and…
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Micah L. Sifry
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Ambassadors From Another Time
A brief note from vacation.
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Micah L. Sifry
Tools for Technocrats, Not Citizens: Today's Political Tech Industry
Higher Ground Labs' 2022 landscape report suggests the field is yielding diminishing returns from its top-down, capital-intensive approach to organizing…
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Micah L. Sifry
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