Artificial Intelligence

The best writing about AI and its impact on our lives

We’ve just updated our list of articles about AI. Here are the new additions:

What Is Claude? by Gideon Lewis-Kraus - Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch

America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs by Josh Tyrangiel - Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?

Friend or Faux? by Josh Dzieza - What do you love when you fall for AI?

To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot by Eli Saslow - At 85, Jan Worrell lived alone on a remote corner of the Washington coast. Could ElliQ become her companion?

The AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality Than You Think by Michael Hirsh - The Pentagon is racing to integrate AI into its weapons system to keep up with China and Russia. Where will that lead?

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Anonymous - Does the world really need another ‘The Case For Why AI Could Be Dangerous’ essay?

We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart - The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next

You Sound Like ChatGPT by Sara Parker - AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

Why Does A.I. Write Like That? by Sam Kriss - Chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. by Bill Wasik - The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

The Great Fiction of AI by Josh Dzieza - The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction

AI Will Not Make You Rich by Jerry Neumann - The disruption is real. It’s also predictable.

This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques - The tangle of AI deals among tech giants could be signs of dangerous overinvestment in the developing technology

Check out the full list for more great writing about AI. Let us know what we missed!