Thoughts on the plans to unleash a wave of AI chatbots on a very lonely public. Related links drop Monday, August 26. Essay drops Friday, August 30. Subscribe to get this right in your email when new content is published.
One of the repeating themes I'll return to is the inherent faith we have in technology, because we culturally were raised to see progress as perpetually helpful. We dream one day that tech will bring us to the world of Star Trek tricorders, and, in some ways, tech
I've been called a lot of things in my life, but one label I hadn't considered was doomer. I have been guilty of doomscrolling, popularized in part by my friend Karen Ho, and I am worried about where the world is heading–who would have thought