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Gen-AI is a threat to human thinking3 days ago

David Z. Morris is a groundbreaking business journalist, researcher, and writer focused on the social impacts of technology. (Here’s one social impact he helped predict: he was part of the team at CoinDesk that first understood and exposed the c...

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The identity industrialists11 days ago

There’s a new kind of power emerging in culture: the identity industrialist. Not a filmmaker, not a technologist, not a marketer, but a person who manufactures human beings the way earlier generations manufactured steel, automobiles, or celebrities. They don’t manage talent; they produce it. And their raw material isn’t silicone or code but identity itself.

We cross...

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Lessons in connoisseurship from the Golden Globes12 days ago

I tuned into the Golden Globes last night, which I don’t typically do. It felt a bit like a mini-vacation, some glitter, some gossip — and at times, a moving tribute to vision and craft. It was unexpectedly good for my reality-battered soul.

The entertainment industry is a famously ugly business, perpetually retrograde in the way it

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"Suddenly everyone’s life got a lot more similar”: AI isn’t just imitating creativity, it’s homogenizing thinking13 days ago

2025 featured a steady drumbeat of warning signs about the psychological risks of text-generating large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Microsoft researchers found that generative AI

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