Readings

China Rewrites the 'Soft Power' Playbook for the A.I. Age

The New York Times · Steve Lohr · 6 min read

Could A.I. Do Your Job? We Put Agents to the Test.

The New York Times · Keith Collins · 6 min read

OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT's 'Dangerous' Health Advice

The New York Times · Teddy Rosenbluth · 7 min read

Stocks and the Economy Are Increasingly Relying on the A.I. Boom

The New York Times · Ben Casselman, Joe Rennison · 8 min read

The Scariest Part of OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 6 min read

The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble

The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 7 min read

Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed

The New York Times · 5 min read

A.I. 'Vibecoded' Apps Are Flooding Apple's App Store

The New York Times · Kalley Huang · 7 min read

How Google's A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web

The New York Times · Kate Conger · 8 min read

Opinion | A.I. Drones Are Coming. We Are Not Ready.

The New York Times · W.J. Hennigan · 15 min read

Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?

Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson · 20 min read

Politicians Are Trying to Change What Chatbots Say About Them

The New York Times · Stuart A. Thompson, Tiffany Hsu · 7 min read

Step Into the 'Zone of Genius' (Before A.I. Takes Your Job)

The New York Times · Lora Kelley · 4 min read

China's Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi Model, Threatening America's Lead

The New York Times · Meaghan Tobin, Cade Metz · 5 min read

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

The A.I. Gender Gap Meets the Parenting Gender Gap

The New Yorker · Jessica Winter · 15 min read

The Truth About AI's Water Use

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 9 min read

Anthropic Accidentally Made the Perfect Commercial

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 6 min read

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 10 min read

When A.I. Is a Member of the Family

The New Yorker · Jessica Contrera · 31 min read

The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious

The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 9 min read

A New Phase of the AI-Jobs Panic

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 9 min read

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

Opinion | The Problem With Google's A.I. Overview

The New York Times · Anne-Laure Le Cunff · 6 min read

China Is Abusing AI

The Atlantic · Michael Schuman · 7 min read

Philosophers Are the Latest Hiring Target for AI Companies

The New York Times · Benjamin Wallace · 16 min read

A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal

The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 11 min read

A.I. Is Reshaping the Economy. Good Luck Measuring How.

The New York Times · Ben Casselman · 10 min read

I Spent a Week in a Hacker House

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 16 min read

Opinion | Why A.I. Won't Steal All Our Jobs

The New York Times · Zeynep Tufekci · 12 min read

What AI Will Do to Art

The Atlantic · Spencer Kornhaber · 32 min read

A.I. 'Employees' Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways

The New York Times · Noam Scheiber · 9 min read

The Man Who Saw AI Coming

The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 17 min read

Voters Think A.I. Is Terrible. In Campaigns, It's Everywhere.

The New York Times · Stuart A. Thompson · 8 min read

The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age

The Atlantic · David Brooks · 19 min read

AI Can't Fix the Student-Motivation Problem

The Atlantic · Jenny Anderson, Mike Goldstein · 7 min read

Opinion | There's One Clear Reason Why Americans Are Gloomy About A.I.

The New York Times · Paul Kedrosky · 5 min read

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Reuters · Karen Freifeld · 4 min read

The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That's Taking Over the Internet

The New Yorker · Kyle Chayka · 7 min read

Would Claude Refuse an Illegal Military Order?

The Atlantic · Shane Harris · 16 min read

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

Would You Let an A.I. Michael Caine Read You the 'Odyssey'?

The New York Times · Alexandra Alter · 8 min read

America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 7 min read

Doctors Are Worried About AI. They Use It Anyway.

The Atlantic · Benjamin Mazer · 8 min read

The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers

The New York Times · Adeel Hassan · 9 min read

Nothing on the Internet Is Secure Anymore

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 11 min read

Lessons from the Original Tech Bubble

The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 11 min read

This Is How America Loses the AI Race

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 9 min read

Why AI Is Incorrigibly Didactic

The Atlantic · Adam Kirsch · 10 min read

The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music

The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 12 min read

Three Ways to Think About AI and Jobs

The Atlantic · Rogé Karma · 12 min read

Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?

The New Yorker · Katy Waldman · 13 min read

In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive?

The New York Times · The New York Times · 24 min read

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

The New York Times · Gregory Barber · 11 min read

From Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I.

The New York Times · Coralie Kraft, Spencer Lowell · 9 min read

Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It

The New Yorker · Cal Newport · 12 min read

Opinion | It's No Wonder Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers

The New York Times · Molly Jong-Fast · 6 min read

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

Trump says he's considering government stake in top AI companies

The Washington Post · Ian Duncan · 5 min read

You Might Soon Own a Piece of SpaceX

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 8 min read

The Death of the Reader

The Atlantic · Walt Hunter · 8 min read

What Are A.I. Agents Actually Doing?

The New York Times · Cade Metz · 4 min read

I Think, Therefore I Am Getting Paid by an AI Company

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

The Atlantic · Ted Chiang · 30 min read

The President Keeps Contradicting Himself on AI

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff, Matteo Wong · 7 min read

AI Has Ruined the Job Market

The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 7 min read

As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution

The New York Times · Siobhan Roberts · 9 min read

Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?

The New Yorker · Jay Caspian Kang · 14 min read

The Rise of Anti-AI AI Slop

The Atlantic · Kaitlyn Tiffany · 9 min read

Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models

The New York Times · Sheera Frenkel, Tripp Mickle · 3 min read

Why Christian Intellectuals Are So Unsettled by AI

The Atlantic · Tyler Austin Harper · 7 min read

Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential

darioamodei.com · Dario Amodei · 31 min read

Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands

The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 7 min read

Tilly Norwood, A.I. Actress, Wants to Know Why Everyone's Mad at Her

The New York Times · Taffy Brodesser-Akner · 39 min read

AI Is Causing a Crisis of Agency

The Atlantic · Charlie Warzel · 10 min read

America Has a Pangram Problem

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 10 min read

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

Should You Automate Your Life?

The New Yorker · Joshua Rothman · 10 min read

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

The Atlantic · Eve Fairbanks · 10 min read

Opinion | Pope Leo's A.I. Vision Might Not Be Strange Enough

The New York Times · Ross Douthat · 9 min read

Opinion | Writing Is Fundamental to How We Think

The New York Times · Rebecca Winthrop · 5 min read

What the Pope Said About A.I.

The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 11 min read

At the A.I. Epicenter, Technologists Dismiss Pope Leo's Warnings About the New Technology

The New York Times · Cade Metz · 9 min read

As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words

The New York Times · David Streitfeld · 9 min read

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

AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing

The Atlantic · Will Oremus · 8 min read

Opinion | What A.I. Philanthropists Can Learn From the Gilded Age

The New York Times · Ross Douthat · 5 min read

There's Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 7 min read

Why College Students Are Booing AI

The Atlantic · Ian Bogost · 10 min read

The 'Granta' AI Fiction Scandal Changes Everything

The Atlantic · Vauhini Vara · 10 min read

After Elon Musk's Court Loss Comes the Long Hot A.I. Summer

The New York Times · David Streitfeld, Natallie Rocha · 7 min read

AI Has Broken Containment

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 8 min read

Opinion | The Generation That Grew Up With A.I. Hates It

The New York Times · Michelle Goldberg · 6 min read

The Prehistory of A.I. Slop

The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 19 min read

Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class

The New York Times · Theo Baker · 13 min read

Opinion | What A.I. Kant Do

The New York Times · Maureen Dowd · 6 min read

Opinion | Why We Keep Tricking Ourselves Into Thinking A.I. Is Conscious

The New York Times · Leif Weatherby · 7 min read

The AI Conversation Is Moving Too Fast to Be Comprehensible

The Atlantic · Charlie Warzel · 11 min read

The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 7 min read

How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition

The Atlantic · Rose Horowitch · 7 min read

Opinion | The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future

The New York Times · Yi-Ling Liu · 12 min read

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The New York Times · Dustin Volz · 5 min read

Save the Taxi Drivers

The Atlantic · Xochitl Gonzalez · 7 min read

All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Very Nervous.

The New York Times · Sarah Kessler · 10 min read

Opinion | The Atheist and the Machine God

The New York Times · Ross Douthat · 5 min read

A.I. Populism Is Here. And No One Is Ready.

The New York Times · David Wallace-Wells · 12 min read

Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable

The New York Times · Kalley Huang, Eli Tan, Kate Conger · 7 min read

How a Congressional Primary Became a Proxy Battle Over A.I.

The New Yorker · Gideon Lewis-Kraus · 23 min read

No, AI Isn't Conscious … Yet

The Atlantic · Ross Andersen · 7 min read

The Secret to Understanding AI

The Atlantic · Josh Tyrangiel · 17 min read

Opinion | Why A.I. Will Never Replace Your Doctor

The New York Times · Danielle Ofri · 5 min read

The Federal Safety Net Isn't Ready for Artificial Intelligence

The New York Times · Ben Casselman, Tony Romm · 9 min read

U.S.C. Will Infuse A.I. Across University with $200 Million Donation

The New York Times · Alan Blinder · 4 min read

Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?

The New Yorker · Jay Caspian Kang · 12 min read

The A.I. Industry Is Booming. When Will It Actually Make Money?

The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 10 min read

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

Opinion | Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won't Happen

The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 12 min read

Can AI Find You Love?

The Atlantic · Annie Joy Williams · 14 min read

Maybe AI Isn't a Bubble After All

The Atlantic · Rogé Karma · 13 min read

Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass

The New York Times · Jasmine Sun · 24 min read

Opinion | There's a 900-Year-Old Answer to Our Most Modern Problem

The New York Times · David French · 12 min read

The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance

The Atlantic · Jacob Noti-Victor, Xiyin Tang · 8 min read

Anthropic's Little Brother

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 6 min read

Opinion | Political Campaigns Have No Idea What's About to Hit Them

The New York Times · Thomas B. Edsall · 13 min read

What Happens If Trump Seizes AI Companies

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong, Lila Shroff · 16 min read

With A.I., Anyone Can Be an Influencer

The New Yorker · T. M. Brown · 10 min read

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

The New Yorker · Jessica Winter · 23 min read

Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I.

The New York Times · Evan Gorelick, Alex Kent · 8 min read

A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making

The New Yorker · Kyle Chayka · 9 min read

How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

The New Yorker · Gideon Lewis-Kraus · 17 min read

Opinion | Don't Use A.I. to Do This

The New York Times · Colson Whitehead · 6 min read

That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job

The New York Times · Noam Scheiber · 8 min read

What Is 'Jagged Intelligence' and How Can It Reframe the AI Debate?

The New York Times · Cade Metz · 8 min read

Why It's Crucial We Understand How A.I. 'Thinks'

The New York Times · Oliver Whang · 22 min read

How 4chan Gamers Accidentally Invented AI Reasoning

The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 8 min read

He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.

The New York Times · Teddy Rosenbluth · 17 min read

The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race

The New York Times · Sheera Frenkel, Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano · 12 min read

Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine · Amanda Gefter · 17 min read

Claude Mythos Is Everyone's Problem

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 6 min read

Opinion | Anthropic's Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign

The New York Times · Thomas L. Friedman · 7 min read

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

The New Yorker · Ronan Farrow, Andrew Marantz · 81 min read

The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload

The New York Times · Mike Isaac, Erin Griffith · 7 min read

Think Twice Before Asking ChatGPT About Your Health

The Atlantic · Sage Lazzaro · 10 min read

What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots

The New York Times · Kashmir Hill, Frances F. Denny · 15 min read

Economists Are Drawing Stronger Connections Between A.I. and Jobs

The New York Times · Ben Casselman · 11 min read

Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.?

The New Yorker · Joshua Rothman · 14 min read

The AI Industry Wants to Automate Itself

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong, Lila Shroff · 8 min read

How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

The New York Times · Erin Griffith · 12 min read

Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI

The Atlantic · Rogé Karma · 9 min read

A Game Plan for the AI Boom

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 9 min read

Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 11 min read

The Man Who Thought He Could Keep AI Safe

The Atlantic · Sebastian Mallaby · 9 min read

No, Netanyahu Is Not Dead

The Atlantic · Yair Rosenberg · 8 min read

In 'The AI Doc,' Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record

The New York Times · Alissa Wilkinson · 5 min read

How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times

The Atlantic · Vauhini Vara · 9 min read

How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years

The Atlantic · Annie Lowrey · 8 min read

Does A.I. Need a Constitution?

The New Yorker · Jill Lepore · 26 min read

How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?

The New Yorker · Anthony Lane · 20 min read

Is Taste the One Thing A.I. Can't Replace?

The New York Times · Joseph Bernstein · 6 min read

The First AI Crisis Is Psychological

The Atlantic · Nick Dothée · 7 min read

The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry

The Atlantic · Alex Reisner · 8 min read

A.I. Bots Can Act as Personal Digital Assistants, but There Are Serious Risks

The New York Times · Cade Metz · 8 min read

A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared.

The New York Times · Alexandra Alter · 11 min read

Sorry, Mom. You're Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son.

The New York Times · Natallie Rocha, Arsenii Vaselenko · 7 min read

The Human Skill That Eludes AI

The Atlantic · Jasmine Sun · 10 min read

Anthropic and Donald Trump's Dangerous Alignment Problem

The New Yorker · Gideon Lewis-Kraus · 27 min read

Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Online

The New York Times · Stuart A. Thompson, Alexander Cardia · 7 min read

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 21 min read

The Fog of AI

The Atlantic · Mahsa Alimardani · 8 min read

Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?

The New York Times · Clive Thompson · 33 min read

Who Cares If AI Brings Down the Economy?

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read

AI Isn't Coming for Everyone's Job

The Atlantic · Adam Ozimek · 7 min read

I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

Dwarkesh Podcast · Dwarkesh Patel · 23 min read

The Dissonance of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

The Atlantic · Ross Andersen · 12 min read

Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 8 min read

Love in the Time of A.I. Companions

The New Yorker · Anna Wiener · 44 min read

Opinion | The Future We Feared Is Already Here

The New York Times · Ezra Klein · 13 min read

Anthropic's Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off

The Atlantic · Ken Harbaugh · 5 min read

OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying

The Atlantic · Matteo Wong · 11 min read

Opinion | The A.I. Labor Crisis Is Coming. This Is the Solution.

The New York Times · Gina Raimondo · 5 min read

Don't Call It 'Intelligence'

The Atlantic · Charles Yu · 9 min read

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

Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker?

The New Yorker · John Cassidy · 10 min read

Clawed

Hyperdimensional · Dean W. Ball · 19 min read

Michael Pollan Punctures the AI Bubble

The Atlantic · Charles Finch · 8 min read

AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm

The Atlantic · Lila Shroff · 9 min read

Why I'm not worried about AI job loss

David Oks · David Oks · 19 min read

Something Big Is Happening

Matt Shumer · Matt Shumer · 26 min read

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology