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Build a life worth living in the age of artificial intelligence.

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What the British Post Office scandal shows us about AI

What the British Post Office scandal shows us about AI

Dec 16, 2025

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Is Google really reading your Gmail to train AI?

Is Google really reading your Gmail to train AI?

Dec 3, 2025

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How to clone your own voice

How to clone your own voice

Nov 28, 2025

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AI and the war of analogy

AI and the war of analogy

Nov 7, 2025

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Why Amazon won't let robots shop

Why Amazon won't let robots shop

Oct 10, 2025

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AI and the end of evidence

AI and the end of evidence

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Tech Design

Consider the Amish mattress

Oct 24, 2025

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Consider the Amish mattress

As tech-tied products produce indentured consumers, there's growing value in objects unlinked to the datastream.

Bruce Barcott
Bruce Barcott

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Is ethical AI possible?

Oct 3, 2025

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Is ethical AI possible?

Maybe. Try these two ethically-sourced AI models that are leaps ahead of the rest.

Bruce Barcott
Bruce Barcott

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Chatbots

How ChatGPT turned into a teen's suicide machine

Sep 6, 2025

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How ChatGPT turned into a teen's suicide machine

The case of 16-year-old Adam Raine reveals deadly flaws in OpenAI's product design and the seductive power of chatbots.

Bruce Barcott
Bruce Barcott

Meet the Humanist


Bruce Barcott, founding editor of The AI Humanist, is a writer known for his award-winning work on environmental issues and drug policy for The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Outside, Rolling Stone, TIME, and other publications.

A former Guggenheim Fellow in nonfiction, his books include The Measure of a Mountain, The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, and Weed the People.

Bruce currently serves as Editorial Lead for the Transparency Coalition, a nonprofit group that advocates for safe and sensible AI policy. Opinions expressed in The AI Humanist are those of the author alone and do not reflect the position of the Transparency Coalition.

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