Theo Baker’s debut book is a film-worthy investigation of Stanford’s culture of fraud. But his disdain for the tech bros keeps him from understanding them.
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Reporting on technology and AI: how artificial intelligence and Big Tech are reshaping work, the economy, democracy, and the future of work.
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.
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.
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.
America at 250: An Idealist Without Illusions
For all of our understandable angst, let’s chart the good change since the Bicentennial.

