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This year, we’ve seen the introduction of powerful generative AI systems that have the ability to create images and text on demand. At the same time,…

Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned about, such as outputting hateful…

Despite the flood of investigative exposés on dataveillance, users in the United States seem more enmeshed than ever in those infrastructures, as if they are…

The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of nuclear weaponry, for example, has already…

On a snowy winter day, we were in the library of a charter middle school in Portland, Maine. It was the first of many school visits where we teamed up with…

The potential gold standard for online content governance in the EU—the Digital Services Act —is now a reality after the European Parliament voted…

In the vision of the “frictionless” city that is held by many in tech, where virtually every city service, human interaction, and consumer experience is to…

It is now the middle of March. I am sitting in the basement of a country house near Kyiv. Not my house. I haven't been home for three weeks now, maybe more.…

I first held a violin in my late forties. Placing it under my chin, I let go an impious expletive, astonished by the instrument’s connection to mammalian…

All this raises crucial issues about the ethics of near-​term virtual worlds. How should users act in a virtual world? What’s the difference between right…