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397 readings from 22 publications, about 83 hours of reading in all.
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October
- Oct 132026
What If AI Is the End of the World?
The Atlantic · Peter Wehner · 10 min read
- Oct 122026
The Tragedy of AI Coding
The Atlantic · Ian Bogost · 18 min read
- Oct 112026
The Caine Prize–Winning Short Story Seems to Be AI
The Atlantic · Vauhini Vara · 10 min read
- Oct 102026
Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren't Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don't Believe Them.
The New York Times · The Editorial Board · 6 min read
- Oct 102026
Opinion | We Had Questions About A.I. Joseph Gordon-Levitt Had Answers.
The New York Times · Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jared Geller, Edward Gallacher, Amanda Su, Mehron Abdi · 8 min read
- Oct 92026
The Many Ways AI Could Disrupt the Midterms
The Atlantic · Toluse Olorunnipa · 13 min read
- Oct 82026
'Nothing About This Was Inevitable'
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 8 min read
- Oct 82026
OpenAI Just Carpet-Bombed Mathematics
The Atlantic · Konstantin Kakaes · 10 min read
- Oct 82026
Opinion | That Daily Brain Rot Break Is Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages
The New York Times · Mary Harrington, Raina Raskin · 45 min read
- Oct 72026
Opinion | 'This Is Nuts.' An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.
The New York Times · Ezra Klein, Rollin Hu · 61 min read
- Oct 42026
AI's Real Gift to Science
The Atlantic · Hana Kiros · 6 min read
- Oct 42026
Should We Ban AI for Kids?
The Atlantic · David Brooks · 38 min read
- Oct 32026
An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine
The New York Times · Matt Richtel · 10 min read
- Oct 32026
Don't Write With AI, Say People Who Write With AI
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 10 min read
- Oct 32026
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The Atlantic · David Robinson · 8 min read
- Oct 32026
What AI Is Doing to Our Hobbies
The Atlantic · Tyler Austin Harper · 7 min read
- Oct 32026
Who Has Expertise in the AI Age?
The Atlantic · Tania Lombrozo · 7 min read
- Oct 22026
Galaxy Brain: An Argument Against AI Doom
The Atlantic · Charlie Warzel · 50 min read
- Oct 22026
Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.
The New York Times · Steven Rattner · 10 min read
- Oct 22026
Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs?
The New Yorker · Joshua Rothman · 13 min read
- Oct 12026
Opinion | We Are Clueless About What's Coming
The New York Times · Spencer A. Klavan, Sophia Muniz · 39 min read
September
- Sep 302026
Opinion | What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us.
The New York Times · Markus Brunnermeier, Sarah Kramer, Mehron Abdi · 10 min read
- Sep 302026
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement
The New Yorker · Becca Rothfeld · 14 min read
- Sep 292026
Dartmouth Provost Is the Latest College Professor Examined for A.I. Use
The New York Times · Mark Arsenault, Alan Blinder · 7 min read
- Sep 292026
Is What We're Watching True or False?
The New Yorker · Vinson Cunningham · 9 min read
- Sep 292026
OpenAI Apologizes for Australia Medicare Hack
The New York Times · Victoria Kim · 4 min read
- Sep 282026
OpenAI Has Gone Rogue
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 7 min read
- Sep 282026
OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
The New York Times · Sheera Frenkel · 3 min read
- Sep 272026
As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
The New York Times · Adam Satariano, Cecilia Kang · 12 min read
- Sep 272026
Opinion | The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence
The New York Times · Simon Critchley · 7 min read
- Sep 272026
The Surprising Reasons China Is Skeptical of A.I. Safety Calls
The New York Times · Lily Kuo · 8 min read
- Sep 262026
Opinion | Has A.I. Become Too Big to Fail? Or Is It Something Worse?
The New York Times · Bethany McLean · 7 min read
- Sep 252026
AI Companies' New Plan to Keep Themselves From Destroying Everything
The Atlantic · Jasmine Sun · 8 min read
- Sep 252026
His Novel Had a Shot at a Top Book Prize. Then Someone Ran an A.I. Test.
The New York Times · Catherine Porter, Ségolène Le Stradic, Tiffany Hsu · 10 min read
- Sep 252026
How OpenAI's Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector
The New York Times · Dylan Freedman, Keith Collins · 7 min read
- Sep 252026
Is China Really Stealing A.I. From American Companies?
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 6 min read
- Sep 252026
OpenAI's A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The New York Times · Kate Conger, Ana Swanson, Cecilia Kang · 6 min read
- Sep 252026
Opinion | Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I.
The New York Times · Rachael Bedard · 7 min read
- Sep 242026
Opinion | Dear Congress: Here's What You Should Ask A.I. Leaders
The New York Times · Cal Newport · 8 min read
- Sep 242026
What the 'Godfather of AI' Thinks Humanity Should Do
The Atlantic · Hanna Rosin · 28 min read
- Sep 232026
OpenAI's A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
The New York Times · Kate Conger, Victoria Kim · 7 min read
- Sep 232026
Opinion | The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now
The New York Times · Jamelle Bouie · 7 min read
- Sep 232026
What China's Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom
The New Yorker · Afra Wang · 17 min read
- Sep 222026
I Gave My Life Over to Meta's A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away
The New York Times · Eli Tan · 8 min read
- Sep 222026
Opinion | It's Time to Cry Wolf Over A.I.
The New York Times · Thomas L. Friedman · 9 min read
- Sep 222026
Opinion | Why A.I. Is Dangerous for Science
The New York Times · Zeynep Tufekci · 9 min read
- Sep 222026
The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I.
The New York Times · Chico Harlan · 9 min read
- Sep 222026
What to Know About Recent A.I. Hacks
The New York Times · Kate Conger · 8 min read
- Sep 212026
Are A.I. Models Being Misled to Act Too Human?
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 6 min read
- Sep 212026
How to Regulate the Ghosts
The Atlantic · Josh Tyrangiel · 8 min read
- Sep 212026
Is A.I. Above the Law?
The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 20 min read
- Sep 212026
Opinion | Bernie Sanders, Steve Case and Others on What Washington Should Do Now on A.I.
The New York Times · New York Times Opinion · 12 min read
- Sep 212026
Professors Are Tearing Their Hair Out Over AI Detectors
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 9 min read
- Sep 212026
The Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations
The Atlantic · Jonathan Chait · 8 min read
- Sep 202026
Our A.I. Problem
The New Yorker · Gideon Lewis-Kraus · 6 min read
- Sep 192026
Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds
The New York Times · Dylan Freedman, Dustin Volz · 5 min read
- Sep 192026
Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says
The New York Times · Kate Conger · 4 min read
- Sep 192026
Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think
The New York Times · Tressie McMillan Cottom · 7 min read
- Sep 192026
Opinion | Trump and Xi Can Make Progress on A.I.
The New York Times · Nicholas Kristof · 6 min read
- Sep 192026
Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
The New Yorker · Dan Rockmore · 13 min read
- Sep 192026
Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis
The Atlantic · Charlie Warzel · 12 min read
- Sep 182026
Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings
The New York Times · Lauren Hirsch, Sri Muppidi, Erin Griffith, Mike Isaac · 7 min read
- Sep 182026
Opinion | Humanity Has Avoided Apocalypse Before. Let's Do It Again.
The New York Times · The Editorial Board · 14 min read
- Sep 182026
The Other Way AI Impairs Our Thinking
The Atlantic · Thomas Chatterton Williams · 6 min read
- Sep 172026
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of 'Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The New York Times · Emmy Martin · 5 min read
- Sep 172026
The Dead Silence of AI Therapy
The Atlantic · Steven Barrie-Anthony · 8 min read
- Sep 162026
Jensen Huang Isn't Worried at All
The Atlantic · Ross Andersen · 6 min read
- Sep 162026
Opinion | A.I. Regulation May Finally Be Here. What Took So Long?
The New York Times · David Wallace-Wells · 13 min read
- Sep 162026
Opinion | China Cares More About A.I. Victory Than Safety
The New York Times · Seth Center · 6 min read
- Sep 162026
The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 10 min read
- Sep 162026
The Quiet Way A.I. Is Hitting the Work Force
The New York Times · Talmon Joseph Smith · 8 min read
- Sep 162026
The Subtle Sign That A.I. Is Not Yet a National Political Issue
The New York Times · Nate Cohn · 4 min read
- Sep 152026
How A.I. Risks Are Splitting Silicon Valley and Washington
The New York Times · Emmy Martin, Rebecca Lieberman · 2 min read
- Sep 152026
Math Can't Go On Like This
The Atlantic · Kai Williams · 6 min read
- Sep 152026
Opinion | Has A.I. Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds?
The New York Times · Bret Stephens · 5 min read
- Sep 152026
Opinion | It's Already Too Late to Stop the A.I. Threat
The New York Times · Thomas L. Friedman · 9 min read
- Sep 152026
Opinion | The 'But China!' Dilemma Driving the A.I. Race
The New York Times · Ezra Klein, Rollin Hu · 56 min read
- Sep 152026
Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It
The New York Times · Mark Arsenault, Dana Goldstein, Alan Blinder, Sarah Mervosh · 9 min read
- Sep 152026
What Trump's Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI
The Atlantic · Gal Beckerman · 7 min read
- Sep 152026
Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?
The New Yorker · Jay Caspian Kang · 11 min read
- Sep 142026
Opinion | Dario Amodei's Essay Was Gutsy. It Didn't Go Far Enough.
The New York Times · Sebastian Mallaby · 8 min read
- Sep 142026
Trump Administration Moves to Integrate A.I. Into Medical Care Despite Concerns
The New York Times · Christina Jewett · 12 min read
- Sep 132026
As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers
The New York Times · David E. Sanger, Dustin Volz · 13 min read
- Sep 132026
It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read
- Sep 122026
AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System
The Atlantic · Toluse Olorunnipa · 15 min read
- Sep 122026
Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown
The New York Times · Mike Isaac · 5 min read
- Sep 122026
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
darioamodei.com · Dario Amodei · 21 min read
- Sep 122026
Dario Amodei: 'We Owe It to Humanity' to Slow Down AI
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 8 min read
- Sep 122026
Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday
The New York Times · Mike Isaac, Kate Conger · 8 min read
- Sep 122026
Opinion | Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse
The New York Times · Michelle Goldberg · 7 min read
- Sep 122026
Why It's Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I.
The New York Times · Sheera Frenkel, Dylan Freedman · 8 min read
- Sep 112026
Can A.I. "Go Rogue"?
The New Yorker · Joshua Rothman · 14 min read
- Sep 112026
Opinion | This Is Really Bad
The New York Times · Stephen Witt · 20 min read
- Sep 112026
The AI Pandemic Isn't On Its Way
The Atlantic · Katherine J. Wu · 10 min read
- Sep 112026
The Original Sin of AI
The Atlantic · Sherry Turkle · 8 min read
- Sep 102026
A.I. Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That?
The New York Times · William J. Broad, Cade Metz · 8 min read
- Sep 102026
A.I. Data Center Pollution Poses Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn
The New York Times · Hiroko Tabuchi · 7 min read
- Sep 102026
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
The New York Times · Dustin Volz · 7 min read
- Sep 102026
Opinion | Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time's Not Going So Well.
The New York Times · Oren Cass · 20 min read
- Sep 102026
The Fantasy of the End of the World
The Atlantic · Ian Bogost · 10 min read
- Sep 102026
The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem
The New York Times · Kenneth Chang · 11 min read
- Sep 92026
Opinion | I Worked on Safety at OpenAI. The Fix Isn't Hard.
The New York Times · Steven Adler · 7 min read
- Sep 92026
Opinion | The Data Center Conundrum
The New York Times · Nicholas Kristof · 8 min read
- Sep 82026
Destroying Books to Build a Mind
The New Yorker · Francesca Mancino · 16 min read
- Sep 82026
Medicine Needs to Get Serious About AI
The Atlantic · Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Vinod Khosla · 8 min read
- Sep 82026
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems'
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 8 min read
- Sep 72026
Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?
The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 9 min read
- Sep 62026
AI Is Already Making Us Less Human
The Atlantic · David Brooks · 14 min read
- Sep 52026
Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now?
The New York Times · Cal Newport · 11 min read
- Sep 52026
Why I Want More AI at Dartmouth
The Atlantic · Sian Leah Beilock · 7 min read
- Sep 42026
Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.
The New York Times · Eli Tan · 7 min read
- Sep 42026
How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots' Hack of Hugging Face
The New York Times · Dylan Freedman · 8 min read
- Sep 42026
The Missing Ingredient of Modern Life
The Atlantic · Ian Bogost · 8 min read
- Sep 42026
What's Wrong With Using AI to Text?
The Atlantic · Kaitlyn Tiffany · 8 min read
- Sep 42026
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.
The New York Times · Kevin Roose · 8 min read
- Sep 32026
How the Early Dreams of the Internet Changed
The Atlantic · Jake Lundberg · 6 min read
- Sep 22026
Whatever the AI Future Is, We're in It Right Now
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel · 15 min read
- Sep 12026
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
Dwarkesh Podcast · Dwarkesh Patel · 111 min read
August
- Aug 312026
Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 9 min read
- Aug 302026
The Dishonor Code
The Atlantic · John Paul Rollert · 11 min read
- Aug 282026
The AI Backlash Gets Professional
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 10 min read
- Aug 272026
A Turning Point in AI Writing
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 7 min read
- Aug 272026
Bill Gates on the Dangers of AI
The Atlantic · Hanna Rosin · 25 min read
- Aug 272026
Data Centers Are a Distraction
The Atlantic · Rogé Karma · 11 min read
- Aug 272026
OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing
The New York Times · Kate Conger · 4 min read
- Aug 272026
Paul Claude Gigot: Why I Am Right About AI
The Atlantic · Paul "Claude" Gigot · 7 min read
- Aug 262026
Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
The New York Times · Karen Weise · 8 min read
- Aug 262026
Opinion | American Students Shouldn't Be Guinea Pigs for Chatbots
The New York Times · Jessica Grose · 8 min read
- Aug 242026
After Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a Crusade
The New York Times · Kate Conger · 8 min read
- Aug 242026
Anatomy of an Autonomous Attack: 5 Alarming A.I. Capabilities
The New York Times · Dylan Freedman · 10 min read
- Aug 242026
Opinion | College Students Worried About A.I. Should Study the Humanities
The New York Times · Frank Bruni · 6 min read
- Aug 212026
The Future Belongs To The Weird
George Strakhov · George Strakhov · 15 min read
- Aug 192026
Everyone's Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer
The New York Times · Amy X. Wang · 7 min read
- Aug 192026
The Mark of the Machine
The New Yorker · Brady Brickner-Wood · 10 min read
- Aug 192026
Why the Closing of Harvard's Writing Center Matters
The Atlantic · Tyler Austin Harper · 8 min read
- Aug 182026
OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow
The New York Times · Cecilia Kang · 4 min read
- Aug 182026
Opinion | The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control
The New York Times · Ezra Klein, Rollin Hu, Jack McCordick · 62 min read
- Aug 182026
What Really Happens If China Wins the AI Race?
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 12 min read
- Aug 172026
AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough.
The New York Times · Tiffany Hsu · 7 min read
- Aug 172026
China Wants Its Data to Power the World's A.I.
The New York Times · David Pierson, Berry Wang · 8 min read
- Aug 172026
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?
The New York Times · Dana Goldstein · 12 min read
- Aug 172026
Why Learn Something That a Machine Can Do for You?
The Atlantic · Julie Beck, Natalie Brennan · 27 min read
- Aug 162026
As A.I. Data Centers Spread, Pressure Mounts to Share Profits
The New York Times · Tony Romm · 16 min read
- Aug 132026
I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.
The New York Times · Brian X. Chen · 8 min read
- Aug 132026
Opinion | If You Weren't Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks
The New York Times · Nate Soares · 7 min read
- Aug 132026
Opinion | Only Global Cooperation Can Keep the World Safe From A.I.
The New York Times · David Wallace-Wells · 16 min read
- Aug 122026
It May Be Time to Panic About AI
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 11 min read
- Aug 122026
Mark Zuckerberg's Convenient Truth
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 8 min read
- Aug 112026
If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?
The New Yorker · Jay Caspian Kang · 8 min read
- Aug 102026
Are You a Human?
The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 26 min read
- Aug 102026
Can A.I. Get You Where You Want to Go for Less?
The New York Times · Elaine Glusac · 6 min read
- Aug 102026
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse
The Walrus · Vass Bednar · 10 min read
- Aug 102026
Mark Zuckerberg's latest manifesto promises to save America with AI
The Washington Post · Gerrit De Vynck · 5 min read
- Aug 102026
Opinion | I've Seen How A.I. Changes Young People's Social Lives
The New York Times · Alice Lassman · 6 min read
- Aug 102026
The Future is for Everyone
Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · 35 min read
- Aug 102026
They said they would build AI safely. Then it went rogue.
The Washington Post · Gerrit De Vynck · 10 min read
- Aug 102026
What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble?
The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 9 min read
- Aug 92026
A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue
The New Yorker · Benjamin Wallace-Wells · 7 min read
- Aug 62026
This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
The New York Times · Carl Zimmer · 8 min read
- Aug 52026
How China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
The New York Times · Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano, Aaron Krolik · 12 min read
- Aug 52026
Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World
The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 9 min read
- Aug 52026
Trump's Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution
The New York Times · Hiroko Tabuchi · 14 min read
- Aug 42026
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills - This Map Shows Where - Gadget Review
Gadget Review · Nikshep Myle · 4 min read
- Aug 42026
Opinion | I'm Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
The New York Times · Bret Stephens · 6 min read
- Aug 42026
Opinion | The A.I. Giants Weren't Prepared for This
The New York Times · Ezra Klein, Rollin Hu · 73 min read
- Aug 42026
These Employees Like Their A.I. Boss. Its Shop Is Kind of a Disaster.
The New York Times · Heather Knight · 6 min read
- Aug 42026
White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules
The New York Times · David McCabe, Mike Isaac, Ana Swanson, Kate Conger · 8 min read
- Aug 32026
How AI Could Make People More Anxious
The Atlantic · Julie Beck, Natalie Brennan · 22 min read
- Aug 32026
Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.
The New York Times · Julie Averill · 9 min read
- Aug 22026
Nanit and Other Baby-Tracking Start-Ups Eye Collecting Even More Data
The New York Times · Sapna Maheshwari · 16 min read
- Aug 12026
What If We Can Never Trust A.I.?
The New Yorker · Joshua Rothman · 13 min read
July
- Jul 312026
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine · John Pavlus · 18 min read
- Jul 302026
A Bay Area Pastor Made an A.I. Twin to Talk About God at Any Time
The New York Times · Eli Saslow, Erin Schaff · 20 min read
- Jul 302026
Big Tech's A.I. Spending Keeps Rising. So Do the Jitters.
The New York Times · Karen Weise · 6 min read
- Jul 302026
Inside OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face
The New Yorker · Stephen Witt · 10 min read
- Jul 302026
Opinion | We Need a Better Test for Dangerous A.I.
The New York Times · Brett J. Goldstein · 6 min read
- Jul 302026
The Accidental Architect of the Internet's Brain
The New Yorker · Carson Griffith · 15 min read
- Jul 302026
When A.I. Invaded 'Heated Rivalry' Fan Fiction, the Meltdown Was Epic
The New York Times · Emmy Martin · 10 min read
- Jul 302026
Why an A.I. Bubble Might Not Be a Bad Thing
The New York Times · Erin Griffith · 7 min read
- Jul 292026
A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps
The New York Times · Adam Satariano, Paul Mozur, Jacqueline Gu, Cade Metz · 13 min read
- Jul 292026
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
The New York Times · Lydia DePillis · 9 min read
- Jul 282026
How to Make AI Work for Workers
The Atlantic · Daron Acemoglu · 8 min read
- Jul 282026
Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power
The New York Times · Mike Isaac, Eli Tan · 6 min read
- Jul 282026
The Worst Way to Regulate AI
The Atlantic · Conor Friedersdorf · 6 min read
- Jul 272026
AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying
Financial Times · 4 min read
- Jul 272026
Even China's A.I. Powerhouses Can't Figure Out How to Profit Off A.I.
The New York Times · Meaghan Tobin · 6 min read
- Jul 272026
Is This What Comes After AI Slop?
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 9 min read
- Jul 272026
Opinion | If You're Over 40, You're Ready to Use A.I.
The New York Times · Debbie Millman · 7 min read
- Jul 242026
An A.I. Music F.A.Q.: Can I Remix Madonna? Is This All Legal?
The New York Times · Ben Sisario · 8 min read
- Jul 242026
Galaxy Brain: Why AI Is Making Things More Expensive
The Atlantic · Charlie Warzel · 34 min read
- Jul 232026
China Rewrites the 'Soft Power' Playbook for the A.I. Age
The New York Times · Steve Lohr · 6 min read
CultureSafety - Jul 232026
Could A.I. Do Your Job? We Put Agents to the Test.
The New York Times · Keith Collins · 6 min read
WorkHow AI Works - Jul 222026
OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT's 'Dangerous' Health Advice
The New York Times · Teddy Rosenbluth · 7 min read
SafetyCulture - Jul 222026
Stocks and the Economy Are Increasingly Relying on the A.I. Boom
The New York Times · Ben Casselman, Joe Rennison · 8 min read
WorkCulture - Jul 222026
The Scariest Part of OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 6 min read
SafetyHow AI Works - Jul 212026
The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble
The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 7 min read
WorkCulture - Jul 212026
Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed
The New York Times · 5 min read
CultureSafety - Jul 202026
A.I. 'Vibecoded' Apps Are Flooding Apple's App Store
The New York Times · Kalley Huang · 7 min read
WorkCulture - Jul 202026
How Google's A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web
The New York Times · Kate Conger · 8 min read
How AI WorksCulture - Jul 202026
Opinion | A.I. Drones Are Coming. We Are Not Ready.
The New York Times · W.J. Hennigan · 15 min read
Safety - Jul 202026
Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson · 20 min read
How AI WorksWork - Jul 192026
Politicians Are Trying to Change What Chatbots Say About Them
The New York Times · Stuart A. Thompson, Tiffany Hsu · 7 min read
CultureSafety - Jul 192026
Step Into the 'Zone of Genius' (Before A.I. Takes Your Job)
The New York Times · Lora Kelley · 4 min read
WorkCulture - Jul 172026
China's Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi Model, Threatening America's Lead
The New York Times · Meaghan Tobin, Cade Metz · 5 min read
IntelligenceSafety - Jul 162026
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don't Recommend Reading It.
The New York Times · Kashmir Hill · 14 min read
CultureTraining & Data - Jul 162026
The A.I. Gender Gap Meets the Parenting Gender Gap
The New Yorker · Jessica Winter · 15 min read
CultureWork - Jul 162026
The Truth About AI's Water Use
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 9 min read
How AI WorksCulture - Jul 152026
Anthropic Accidentally Made the Perfect Commercial
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 6 min read
- Jul 142026
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 10 min read
- Jul 132026
When A.I. Is a Member of the Family
The New Yorker · Jessica Contrera · 31 min read
- Jul 122026
The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 9 min read
- Jul 92026
A New Phase of the AI-Jobs Panic
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 9 min read
- Jul 92026
China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate Over A.I. Data Centers
The New York Times · Steven Lee Myers, Dustin Volz · 8 min read
- Jul 82026
Opinion | The Problem With Google's A.I. Overview
The New York Times · Anne-Laure Le Cunff · 6 min read
- Jul 72026
China Is Abusing AI
The Atlantic · Michael Schuman · 7 min read
- Jul 52026
Philosophers Are the Latest Hiring Target for AI Companies
The New York Times · Benjamin Wallace · 16 min read
SafetyIntelligenceWork - Jul 32026
A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 11 min read
CultureTraining & DataHow AI Works - Jul 22026
A.I. Is Reshaping the Economy. Good Luck Measuring How.
The New York Times · Ben Casselman · 10 min read
Work
June
- Jun 302026
I Spent a Week in a Hacker House
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 16 min read
CultureWork - Jun 302026
Opinion | Why A.I. Won't Steal All Our Jobs
The New York Times · Zeynep Tufekci · 12 min read
WorkHow AI WorksIntelligence - Jun 302026
What AI Will Do to Art
The Atlantic · Spencer Kornhaber · 32 min read
CultureTraining & Data - Jun 292026
A.I. 'Employees' Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways
The New York Times · Noam Scheiber · 9 min read
WorkHow AI WorksTraining & Data - Jun 292026
The Man Who Saw AI Coming
The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 17 min read
WorkIntelligence - Jun 292026
Voters Think A.I. Is Terrible. In Campaigns, It's Everywhere.
The New York Times · Stuart A. Thompson · 8 min read
CultureWork - Jun 282026
The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
The Atlantic · David Brooks · 19 min read
WorkIntelligenceCulture - Jun 252026
AI Can't Fix the Student-Motivation Problem
The Atlantic · Jenny Anderson, Mike Goldstein · 7 min read
CultureWork - Jun 252026
Opinion | There's One Clear Reason Why Americans Are Gloomy About A.I.
The New York Times · Paul Kedrosky · 5 min read
WorkCulture - Jun 242026
Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Reuters · Karen Freifeld · 4 min read
SafetyHow AI WorksTraining & Data - Jun 242026
The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That's Taking Over the Internet
The New Yorker · Kyle Chayka · 7 min read
CultureHow AI Works - Jun 242026
Would Claude Refuse an Illegal Military Order?
The Atlantic · Shane Harris · 16 min read
SafetyHow AI WorksTraining & Data - Jun 232026
N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute
The New York Times · Dustin Volz, Julian E. Barnes · 6 min read
SafetyIntelligence - Jun 232026
Would You Let an A.I. Michael Caine Read You the 'Odyssey'?
The New York Times · Alexandra Alter · 8 min read
CultureWork - Jun 182026
America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 7 min read
WorkCulture - Jun 172026
Doctors Are Worried About AI. They Use It Anyway.
The Atlantic · Benjamin Mazer · 8 min read
WorkSafety - Jun 172026
The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers
The New York Times · Adeel Hassan · 9 min read
How AI WorksCulture - Jun 162026
Nothing on the Internet Is Secure Anymore
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 11 min read
SafetyHow AI Works - Jun 152026
Lessons from the Original Tech Bubble
The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 11 min read
WorkCulture - Jun 152026
This Is How America Loses the AI Race
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 9 min read
Safety - Jun 152026
Why AI Is Incorrigibly Didactic
The Atlantic · Adam Kirsch · 10 min read
CultureHow AI Works - Jun 142026
The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 12 min read
Training & DataCultureWork - Jun 112026
Three Ways to Think About AI and Jobs
The Atlantic · Rogé Karma · 12 min read
Work - Jun 102026
Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
darioamodei.com · Dario Amodei · 31 min read
SafetyWorkIntelligence - Jun 102026
Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?
The New Yorker · Katy Waldman · 13 min read
CultureTraining & Data - Jun 92026
In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive?
The New York Times · The New York Times · 24 min read
WorkIntelligence - Jun 82026
A.I. Degree Programs Surge as Colleges Seek Students and Relevance
The New York Times · Alan Blinder · 8 min read
- Jun 82026
They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.
The New York Times · Gregory Barber · 11 min read
WorkIntelligenceHow AI Works - Jun 52026
From Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I.
The New York Times · Coralie Kraft, Spencer Lowell · 9 min read
- Jun 52026
Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It
The New Yorker · Cal Newport · 12 min read
- Jun 52026
Opinion | It's No Wonder Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers
The New York Times · Molly Jong-Fast · 6 min read
WorkCulture - Jun 52026
Refik Anadol's Dataland: You Feel the A.I. Art, and It Feels You Back
The New York Times · Frank Rose, Sela Shiloni · 12 min read
- Jun 52026
Trump says he's considering government stake in top AI companies
The Washington Post · Ian Duncan · 5 min read
- Jun 52026
You Might Soon Own a Piece of SpaceX
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 8 min read
- Jun 42026
The Death of the Reader
The Atlantic · Walt Hunter · 8 min read
- Jun 42026
What Are A.I. Agents Actually Doing?
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 4 min read
- Jun 32026
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting Paid by an AI Company
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read
- Jun 32026
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
The Atlantic · Ted Chiang · 30 min read
- Jun 32026
The President Keeps Contradicting Himself on AI
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff, Matteo Wong · 7 min read
- Jun 22026
AI Has Ruined the Job Market
The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 7 min read
- Jun 22026
As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
The New York Times · Siobhan Roberts · 9 min read
- Jun 22026
Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?
The New Yorker · Jay Caspian Kang · 14 min read
- Jun 22026
The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop
The Atlantic · Kaitlyn Tiffany · 9 min read
- Jun 22026
Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
The New York Times · Sheera Frenkel, Tripp Mickle · 3 min read
- Jun 22026
Why Christian Intellectuals Are So Unsettled by AI
The Atlantic · Tyler Austin Harper · 7 min read
May
- May 312026
Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands
The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 7 min read
- May 312026
Tilly Norwood, A.I. Actress, Wants to Know Why Everyone's Mad at Her
The New York Times · Taffy Brodesser-Akner · 39 min read
- May 302026
AI Is Causing a Crisis of Agency
The Atlantic · Charlie Warzel · 10 min read
- May 302026
America Has a Pangram Problem
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 10 min read
- May 302026
Opinion | The First A.I. High School in the U.S. Is Surprisingly Human
The New York Times · Jessica Grose, Jill Frank · 21 min read
- May 292026
Should You Automate Your Life?
The New Yorker · Joshua Rothman · 10 min read
- May 292026
The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI
The Atlantic · Eve Fairbanks · 10 min read
- May 272026
Opinion | Pope Leo's A.I. Vision Might Not Be Strange Enough
The New York Times · Ross Douthat · 9 min read
- May 272026
Opinion | Writing Is Fundamental to How We Think
The New York Times · Rebecca Winthrop · 5 min read
- May 272026
What the Pope Said About A.I.
The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 11 min read
- May 262026
At the A.I. Epicenter, Technologists Dismiss Pope Leo's Warnings About the New Technology
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 9 min read
- May 252026
As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words
The New York Times · David Streitfeld · 9 min read
- May 252026
Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical
The New York Times · Motoko Rich, Elisabetta Povoledo, Elizabeth Dias · 8 min read
- May 232026
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing
The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 8 min read
- May 232026
Opinion | What A.I. Philanthropists Can Learn From the Gilded Age
The New York Times · Ross Douthat · 5 min read
- May 232026
There's Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 7 min read
- May 232026
Why College Students Are Booing AI
The Atlantic · Ian Bogost · 10 min read
- May 212026
The 'Granta' AI Fiction Scandal Changes Everything
The Atlantic · Vauhini Vara · 10 min read
- May 182026
After Elon Musk's Court Loss Comes the Long Hot A.I. Summer
The New York Times · David Streitfeld, Natallie Rocha · 7 min read
- May 182026
AI Has Broken Containment
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 8 min read
- May 182026
Opinion | The Generation That Grew Up With A.I. Hates It
The New York Times · Michelle Goldberg · 6 min read
- May 182026
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 19 min read
- May 172026
Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class
The New York Times · Theo Baker · 13 min read
- May 162026
Opinion | What A.I. Kant Do
The New York Times · Maureen Dowd · 6 min read
- May 152026
Opinion | Why We Keep Tricking Ourselves Into Thinking A.I. Is Conscious
The New York Times · Leif Weatherby · 7 min read
- May 142026
The AI Conversation Is Moving Too Fast to Be Comprehensible
The Atlantic · Charlie Warzel · 11 min read
- May 132026
The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 7 min read
- May 122026
How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition
The Atlantic · Rose Horowitch · 7 min read
- May 122026
Opinion | The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future
The New York Times · Yi-Ling Liu · 12 min read
- May 112026
Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
The New York Times · Dustin Volz · 5 min read
- May 102026
Save the Taxi Drivers
The Atlantic · Xochitl Gonzalez · 7 min read
- May 92026
All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Very Nervous.
The New York Times · Sarah Kessler · 10 min read
- May 92026
Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
Futurism · Joe Wilkins · 3 min read
- May 92026
Opinion | The Atheist and the Machine God
The New York Times · Ross Douthat · 5 min read
- May 82026
A.I. Populism Is Here. And No One Is Ready.
The New York Times · David Wallace-Wells · 12 min read
- May 82026
Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
The New York Times · Kalley Huang, Eli Tan, Kate Conger · 7 min read
- May 72026
How a Congressional Primary Became a Proxy Battle Over A.I.
The New Yorker · Gideon Lewis-Kraus · 23 min read
- May 72026
No, AI Isn't Conscious … Yet
The Atlantic · Ross Andersen · 7 min read
- May 72026
The Secret to Understanding AI
The Atlantic · Josh Tyrangiel · 17 min read
- May 52026
Opinion | Why A.I. Will Never Replace Your Doctor
The New York Times · Danielle Ofri · 5 min read
- May 52026
The Federal Safety Net Isn't Ready for Artificial Intelligence
The New York Times · Ben Casselman, Tony Romm · 9 min read
- May 52026
U.S.C. Will Infuse A.I. Across University with $200 Million Donation
The New York Times · Alan Blinder · 4 min read
- May 52026
Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
The New Yorker · Jay Caspian Kang · 12 min read
- May 42026
The A.I. Industry Is Booming. When Will It Actually Make Money?
The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 10 min read
- May 42026
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
The New York Times · Tripp Mickle, Julian E. Barnes, Sheera Frenkel, Dustin Volz · 6 min read
- May 32026
Opinion | Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won't Happen
The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 12 min read
- May 22026
Can AI Find You Love?
The Atlantic · Annie Joy Williams · 14 min read
- May 12026
Maybe AI Isn't a Bubble After All
The Atlantic · Rogé Karma · 13 min read
April
- Apr 302026
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
The New York Times · Jasmine Sun · 24 min read
- Apr 302026
Opinion | There's a 900-Year-Old Answer to Our Most Modern Problem
The New York Times · David French · 12 min read
- Apr 302026
The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance
The Atlantic · Jacob Noti-Victor, Xiyin Tang · 8 min read
- Apr 282026
Anthropic's Little Brother
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 6 min read
- Apr 282026
Opinion | Political Campaigns Have No Idea What's About to Hit Them
The New York Times · Thomas B. Edsall · 13 min read
- Apr 272026
What Happens If Trump Seizes AI Companies
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong, Lila Shroff · 16 min read
- Apr 252026
With A.I., Anyone Can Be an Influencer
The New Yorker · T. M. Brown · 10 min read
- Apr 232026
What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
The New Yorker · Jessica Winter · 23 min read
- Apr 212026
Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I.
The New York Times · Evan Gorelick, Alex Kent · 8 min read
- Apr 152026
A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making
The New Yorker · Kyle Chayka · 9 min read
- Apr 152026
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain
The New Yorker · Gideon Lewis-Kraus · 17 min read
- Apr 152026
Opinion | Don't Use A.I. to Do This
The New York Times · Colson Whitehead · 6 min read
- Apr 152026
That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job
The New York Times · Noam Scheiber · 8 min read
- Apr 152026
What Is 'Jagged Intelligence' and How Can It Reframe the AI Debate?
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 8 min read
- Apr 152026
Why It's Crucial We Understand How A.I. 'Thinks'
The New York Times · Oliver Whang · 22 min read
- Apr 142026
How 4chan Gamers Accidentally Invented AI Reasoning
The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 8 min read
- Apr 132026
He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.
The New York Times · Teddy Rosenbluth · 17 min read
- Apr 122026
The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
The New York Times · Sheera Frenkel, Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano · 12 min read
- Apr 102026
Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine · Amanda Gefter · 17 min read
- Apr 92026
Claude Mythos Is Everyone's Problem
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 6 min read
- Apr 82026
Opinion | Anthropic's Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign
The New York Times · Thomas L. Friedman · 7 min read
- Apr 62026
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
The New Yorker · Ronan Farrow, Andrew Marantz · 81 min read
- Apr 62026
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
The New York Times · Mike Isaac, Erin Griffith · 7 min read
- Apr 62026
Think Twice Before Asking ChatGPT About Your Health
The Atlantic · Sage Lazzaro · 10 min read
- Apr 42026
What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
The New York Times · Kashmir Hill, Frances F. Denny · 15 min read
- Apr 32026
Economists Are Drawing Stronger Connections Between A.I. and Jobs
The New York Times · Ben Casselman · 11 min read
- Apr 32026
Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.?
The New Yorker · Joshua Rothman · 14 min read
- Apr 32026
The AI Industry Wants to Automate Itself
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong, Lila Shroff · 8 min read
- Apr 22026
How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
The New York Times · Erin Griffith · 12 min read
- Apr 22026
Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI
The Atlantic · Rogé Karma · 9 min read
March
- Mar 302026
A Game Plan for the AI Boom
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 9 min read
- Mar 292026
Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco
The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 11 min read
- Mar 292026
The Man Who Thought He Could Keep AI Safe
The Atlantic · Sebastian Mallaby · 9 min read
- Mar 272026
No, Netanyahu Is Not Dead
The Atlantic · Yair Rosenberg · 8 min read
- Mar 262026
In 'The AI Doc,' Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record
The New York Times · Alissa Wilkinson · 5 min read
- Mar 252026
How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times
The Atlantic · Vauhini Vara · 9 min read
Culture - Mar 252026
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years
The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 8 min read
Work - Mar 232026
Does A.I. Need a Constitution?
The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 26 min read
Safety - Mar 222026
How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
The New Yorker · Anthony Lane · 20 min read
CultureTraining & Data - Mar 222026
Is Taste the One Thing A.I. Can't Replace?
The New York Times · Joseph Bernstein · 6 min read
WorkCulture - Mar 222026
The First AI Crisis Is Psychological
The Atlantic · Nick Dothée · 7 min read
Culture - Mar 202026
The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry
The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 8 min read
Training & Data - Mar 192026
A.I. Bots Can Act as Personal Digital Assistants, but There Are Serious Risks
The New York Times · Cade Metz · 8 min read
Culture - Mar 192026
A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared.
The New York Times · Alexandra Alter · 11 min read
CultureTraining & Data - Mar 192026
Sorry, Mom. You're Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son.
The New York Times · Natallie Rocha, Arsenii Vaselenko · 7 min read
Culture - Mar 172026
The Human Skill That Eludes AI
The Atlantic · Jasmine Sun · 10 min read
IntelligenceCulture - Mar 142026
Anthropic and Donald Trump's Dangerous Alignment Problem
The New Yorker · Gideon Lewis-Kraus · 27 min read
Safety - Mar 142026
Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online
The New York Times · Stuart A. Thompson, Alexander Cardia · 7 min read
CultureSafety - Mar 132026
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 21 min read
Training & Data - Mar 132026
The Fog of AI
The Atlantic · Mahsa Alimardani · 8 min read
CultureSafety - Mar 122026
Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?
The New York Times · Clive Thompson · 33 min read
Work - Mar 122026
Who Cares If AI Brings Down the Economy?
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read
WorkCulture - Mar 112026
AI Isn't Coming for Everyone's Job
The Atlantic · Adam Ozimek · 7 min read
Work - Mar 112026
I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
Dwarkesh Podcast · Dwarkesh Patel · 23 min read
Safety - Mar 112026
The Dissonance of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
The Atlantic · Ross Andersen · 12 min read
Safety - Mar 102026
Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read
- Mar 92026
Love in the Time of A.I. Companions
The New Yorker · Anna Wiener · 44 min read
Culture - Mar 82026
Opinion | The Future We Feared Is Already Here
The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 13 min read
- Mar 72026
Anthropic's Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off
The Atlantic · Ken Harbaugh · 5 min read
Safety - Mar 72026
OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying
The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 11 min read
Safety - Mar 62026
Opinion | The A.I. Labor Crisis Is Coming. This Is the Solution.
The New York Times · Gina Raimondo · 5 min read
Work - Mar 52026
Don't Call It 'Intelligence'
The Atlantic · Charles Yu · 9 min read
Intelligence - Mar 42026
Opinion | Americans Are Trying to Stop Data Centers Because They Can't Stop A.I.
The New York Times · David Wallace-Wells · 10 min read
Training & DataSafety - Mar 32026
Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker?
The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 10 min read
Work - Mar 22026
Clawed
Hyperdimensional · Dean W. Ball · 19 min read
Safety
February
- Feb 242026
Michael Pollan Punctures the AI Bubble
The Atlantic · Charles Finch · 8 min read
Culture - Feb 172026
AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 9 min read
- Feb 122026
Why I'm not worried about AI job loss
David Oks · David Oks · 19 min read
Work - Feb 102026
America Isn't Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
The Atlantic · Josh Tyrangiel · 38 min read
- Feb 92026
Something Big Is Happening
Matt Shumer · Matt Shumer · 26 min read
How AI Works
# 2025
- Dec 152025
The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore
The Atlantic · Adam Frank · 7 min read
How AI Works - Dec 12025
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 10 min read
- Nov 102025
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
The New Yorker · James Somers · 29 min read
IntelligenceHow AI Works - Oct 172025
Companion Guide: Andrej Karpathy on the Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Podcast · Andrej Karpathy · 7 min read
How AI Works - Aug 122025
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started
The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read
- Jul 182025
Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
The New York Times · Meghan O'Rourke · 19 min read
- Apr 302025
AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That's OK
Quanta Magazine · Yasemin Saplakoglu · 21 min read
How AI WorksIntelligence - Mar 202025
The Unbelievable Scale of AI's Pirated-Books Problem
The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 9 min read
# 2024
# 2023
- Apr 202023
There Is No A.I.
The New Yorker · Jaron Lanier · 20 min read
IntelligenceHow AI WorksTraining & Data - Mar 162023
The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models
Quanta Magazine · Stephen Ornes · 13 min read
How AI WorksIntelligence - Feb 92023
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
The New Yorker · Ted Chiang · 18 min read
How AI WorksIntelligence
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How this collection is built
These readings follow the public conversation about AI while the course runs. Most are general-audience journalism. The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker supply the bulk of them, alongside essays, interviews, and the occasional podcast.
Each reading starts as a web page. A small browser tool captures the article text and saves it to the course database. We then clean the capture: ads, image credits, bylines, and newsletter boxes come out, and the article itself stays. Curly quotes and stray markup get normalized so the page reads cleanly here.
Many readings carry margin notes. A note ties a passage to something you have done in class. Training a small network. Watching a model predict the next word. Handing a task to a chatbot and checking its work. Look for the underlined links in the text.
Readings are tagged by topic and grouped by source, which is what the filters above use. New pieces are added throughout the semester as the story develops.
Everything here is provided to CS 199 UAI students under academic fair use. Each reading links back to its original source. Follow that link to read it in full and to support the publication.
The interactive tools that go with these ideas live on the Resources page.