Big AI’s call for an antitrust exemption is a ruse. Here’s the right way to structure AI safety talks until we have real leadership in Congress and the White House.
Artificial intelligence
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
The AI Alignment That Can Save Us
To level the playing field between AI moguls and the rest of us, we need political action.
Posted inPodcast
AI Has an Anti-Woman Problem. Here’s How to Fix It
The CEO of the world’s first “female-forward” AI startup has a plan for tackling bias in artificial intelligence.
Posted inHigher Education
Thriving After High School: A Foundation to Build On
A new report makes a nuanced case for what post-secondary graduates need to get ahead.
Posted inBooks
Not Post-Literate Yet
Discouraging surveys and a semi-illiterate president notwithstanding, reports of the death of reading are exaggerated.
Posted inCollege Guide
How Online Algorithms Rig the College Search Process
Search engines steer students with fewer resources toward schools with worse outcomes, many of them predatory for-profits.
Posted inCollege Guide
How to Pick a College in the Age of AI
From someone who has spent two decades running universities and the past few years studying how AI is likely to affect them, here is some advice for playing the odds.
Posted inHigher Education
The Internship Apocalypse Is Here
Summer jobs are increasingly pointless, but getting one has never mattered more.
Posted inPolitics
Burning the Past to Build the Future
AI companies are cutting apart old books for the human writing their technology is making increasingly hard to find.
Posted inBooks
Cory Doctorow Is Making Peace with AI
The tech maven is hip to the manic circular financing behind AI but isn’t freaked out about it being an existential threat.
