As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, in an apparent assassination this week has led to an outpouring of popular rage against health insurance companies from across the political ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, short-story writer, essayist, and translator, he is among the most influential and accomplished literary figures of the last century. He is ...

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Olivia Cheng is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Michigan. Previously, she worked in Silicon Valley managing engineering teams. “She stuffed spinach in her mouth until her teeth were a ...

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