The Argument

The Argument

Everything's computer

Who loses when cars stop crashing?
Sometimes progress puts you out of business.
 • Kelsey Piper
Bernie’s bad bet on OpenAI
Nationalizing AI labs won’t support the welfare state
 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs
Will you still have a job in 2030?
Why AI might not replace us after all
 • Jerusalem Demsas
Jonathan Haidt is wrong about age-gating the internet
Social media is bad but an internet ID is worse
 • Kelsey Piper
Yes, you can trick AI into exonerating you
Francesca Gino, Lawrence Lessig, and the threat of a false AI consensus
 • Kelsey Piper
The spectacular failure of the first AI Super PAC
The crypto playbook doesn't work for AI
 • Kelsey Piper
Americans want artisanal code
The end of "learn to code"
 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs
Do we need to build God to cure cancer?
The AI labs keep promising a medical miracle. Not everyone is buying it.
 • Jerusalem Demsas
Why AI can solve hard math problems but can't count
AI keeps whiffing on this simple question
 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs
The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster
“Her laugh is as bright as zinc” and other bad metaphors
 • Kelsey Piper
No, Waymos aren't racist
Let's get fake studies out of the conversation about self-driving cars
 • Kelsey Piper
Are you there Grok? It's me, Margaret
AI as a centralizing technology
 • Jerusalem Demsas
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