Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made some waves when they proposed a nationwide moratorium on data center construction. It’s not a subtle policy idea, and it’s not meant to be. “We cannot sit back and allow a handful of billionaire Big Tech oligarchs to make decisions that will reshape our economy, our democracy and the future of humanity,” Sanders

One of the great ironies of the AI age, such as it is, is that it wound up looking like such shit. When Artificial Intelligence finally arrived, with all of its fearsome technological sophistication, it was presumed that it would at least look cool as it surveilled, subverted, or enslaved us. Instead, even the biggest boosters of AI have been forced to disavow their technolog...

The first basic income program for workers who have lost pay, jobs, or opportunities to AI began sending out its first funds this week. The program is run by the AI Commons Project, which it’s administering what it calls the AI Dividend: a no-strings payment of $1,000 a month for a yea...

I didn’t watch the Oscars live on Sunday, but I saw some posts floating around noting that host Conan O’Brien tackled AI in the opening monologue, so I gave it a look last night. Pretty good! O’Brien was just harsh enough on a few points that if this were ten years ago, you could imagine some headlines like ‘CONAN EVISCERATES SILICON VALLEY’ on Huffpo or BuzzFeed or such.

Few spheres of public life have been more rapidly and thoroughly transformed by generative AI products than education, and few professions have been more dramatically upended than teachers and education workers. There’s a case to be made that the first major social transformation of the modern AI era was the mass diffusion of ChatGPT into classrooms, where students took to us...