If you liked New Coke you're gonna love New Google. It's an AI slop machine.

Google ditches Classic Search to force-feed AI to the world. Here's what to use instead.

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical resets the terms of the AI debate. It's amazing.

You've never read a papal encyclical? Start here. Start now.

'The Future of Truth' fiasco exposes the truth about AI's falsehoods

Chatbots are built to present fiction as fact. The author of a new book about AI and truth should have known that.

New study shows not everything in life is about raising student test scores

Bell-to-bell phone bans are meant to foster healthy, confident kids—not bump the data on standardized exams.

Vizio isn't selling TVs. It's selling you.

Television sets are now loss leaders. Sony, Vizio, and others are in the business of selling your personal viewing data. Here's how to block their surveillance.

Please understand: Whatever you feed to AI, you publish in AI.

Book editors are uploading manuscripts to ChatGPT, which is both illegal and insane.

Is the magical AI spell breaking?

It's not your imagination. Something is changing.

'Shy Girl' and the math teacher's solution to book slop

In the age of AI, authors and artists need to show proof of life and evidence of work. And that's a good thing.

Meta's perv glasses reveal the ghost workers in the AI machine

Those Ray-Bans are watching you—and sending your image to a Nairobi sweatshop.

Pete Hegseth just delivered a terrifying AI demand. The answer is due tomorrow by 5pm.

The ultimatum: All safeguards dropped from Anthropic's AI tech. Or else.

Emily Bender: Five ways to resist AI

The linguist, author, and AI skeptic is the critic the world needs right now.

How Anthropic won the Super Bowl

The 60-second spots exposing ChatGPT's creepiness are driving Sam Altman crazy. Good.

Hearing from Judge Alsup: Fairness and the limits of AI copyright claims

In which we fly to California to hear from America's leading fair use arbiter.

ChatGPT Health: A terrible idea to fill a desperate need

Stopping AI personhood before it starts

State lawmakers introduce bills to deny personhood to AI systems. Is that really necessary? Well...

What the British Post Office scandal shows us about AI

Before you assume too much about AI's limited abilities, consider the life-breaking consequences of "automation bias" gone wrong.

Is Google really reading your Gmail to train AI?

Let's get to the bottom of this.

The best AI books of the year

Not the most hyped or best selling, just the titles that shaped my thinking.

'Dominate' is the 2025 word of the year

In AI as in life, success is no longer enough. Dominate or die, you loser beta cucks.

How to clone your own voice

I tested two of the most popular AI voice apps. One of them is astonishingly good.

AI and the war of analogy

How do we categorize artificial intelligence? By reaching into the past.

The Humanist Hot List: 'Shadow Library' is the hottest club in town

A brief rundown of AI issues affecting organic humans this week.

Why Amazon won't let robots shop

Do AI bots have the same 'right to shop' as humans?

How an OpenAI IPO could benefit authors, artists, and other creators

SEC rules would force the AI giant to disclose the full risk of its copyright lawsuits. And that would be bad for business.

No-Crawl November

On Monday morning, LinkedIn is going to spread your data everywhere. Update your settings this weekend.