Are We Seeing the First Steps Toward AI Superintelligence?

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Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ever snowball into true superintelligence

Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize

www.theatlantic.com

The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

harpers.org

Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine

Why AI Breaks Bad

www.wired.com

Is claude a crook? The AI company Anthropic has made a rigorous effort to build a large language model with positive human values. The $183 billion company’s flagship product is Claude, and much of the time, its engineers say, Claude…

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

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Suddenly, and not long ago, our dearest tech industry leaders began to suggest caution. Sam Altman said that AI is in a bubble “for sure,” albeit one formed around “a kernel of truth.” Mark Zuckerberg said an AI bubble “is…

Ophelia Disappeared: A Wall Street Analyst and a Deadly Shootout

www.nytimes.com

The group was passionately vegan, mostly transgender and highly educated. Seven of them are now in jail. This is the story of one who did not survive.

Putting ChatGPT on the Couch

www.newyorker.com

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us.I’m still not sure whose idea it was for me to be Casper’s therapist—mine or his. I know I mentioned…

They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion | CNN Business

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AI Mental health See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow New York  —  James, a married father from upstate New York, has always been interested in AI. He works in the technology field and has used…

I Gave My Personality to an AI agent. Here’s What Happened Next

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On a gray Sunday morning in March, I told an AI chatbot my life story.Introducing herself as Isabella, she spoke with a friendly female voice that would have been well-suited to a human therapist, were it not for its distinctly…

What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?

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GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The New Yorker

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor?

Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox

NPR

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Last week, news spread that a Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, had built a cutting-edge chatbot at a fraction of the cost of its American competitors. It sent the stock prices of American tech companies plummeting.

AI Has Likely Spread Through Cosmos, Says Former NASA Chief Historian

For all the debate about the future of artificial intelligence here on earth, at least one prominent astrobiology researcher thinks that much of the cosmos may have already been touched by what he terms post-biological intelligence.

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow

InfoWorld

I myself can’t remember the last time I thought to ask or answer a question on Stack Overflow. Now I just ask GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT. I find that those two tools answer, well, every question I have.

How to Picture A.I.

The New Yorker

A technology by itself is never enough. In order for it to be of use, it needs to be accompanied by other elements, such as popular understanding, good habits, and acceptance of shared responsibility for its consequences.

The text file that runs the internet

The Verge

For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or technical authority, and it’s not even particularly complicated.

A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead?

John Szarkowski, the legendary former curator of the Museum of Modern Art, once described photography as “the act of pointing.

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft

The New Yorker

I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the most essential, and ever more so by the day, encompassing everything from filmmaking to physics.

Confessions of a Viral AI Writer

WIRED

Six or seven years ago, I realized I should learn about artificial intelligence. I’m a journalist, but in my spare time I’d been writing a speculative novel set in a world ruled by a corporate, AI-run government.