AI Is Hitting the Legal System From Every Side

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Courts are grappling with chatbots that provided legal counsel, generated evidence or helped plan a mass shooting. Who’s liable for the AI agents doing crimes all on their own?

Trying to Make a Buck Off a Data Center, One 6-Pack at a Time

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What do you do when a $25 billion complex is under construction nearby? One couple in Abilene had an idea.

The University As We Know It Is Finished

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Clark Kerr (center), president of the University of California, at Occidental graduation, 1958. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis.)When University of California President Clark Kerr delivered the Godkin Lectures at Harvard in 1963, published shortly thereafter as The Uses…

Mathematicians are closing in on the hidden order inside chaos

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A new breakthrough pushes the limits of randomness, bringing a decades-old mathematical mystery closer to resolution

The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet

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How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés.

Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?

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I recently created a simple test, which convinced me that the answer is no.

Please Use AI

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Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save…

The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.

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“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”

Why Did LLMs Steal Our Em-Dashes?

Upon ChatGPT’s release in 2022, I realized that I wrote like AI. My sentences were long, my writing patterns were predictable, and my use of em-dashes was frequent. Initially, I was not concerned: if models are being trained to write like me, I must be doing a good job, right? Then, however, came the “AI detectors” used by teachers and reviewers.

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

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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

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Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine

Why AI Breaks Bad

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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

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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

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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?

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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.