No topic—not the genocidal war and famine in Gaza, not Trumpian authoritarianism—has magnetized bien-pensant attention this year in the way that AI has. Writing on AI thus comes in every mode: muckraking (“Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to ‘Munch’ Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health”), scholastic (“Deep Learning’s Governmentality”), polemical... See more

A future is in store where all the world’s content and information exist in a quantum state – potentially in all formats and on all platforms at the same time – and is generated at volumes and speeds that would have driven Hieronimo Squarciafico mad and made Socrates’ head explode.

In practice, this may not make much of a difference to most people.... See more