Love in the time of AI
Young people are turning to AI chatbots for relationships they can’t find in the real world
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Liz Kendall’s (almost) all-American AI school
All but one of the courses recommended by the UK government are provided by US companies
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Why Keir Starmer has gone to war with Elon Musk
No 10 rejects the techno-libertarian worldview and knows the public is overwhelmingly on its side
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Elon Musk’s Grok must stop facilitating abuse
Ofcom and the government could stop X’s AI engine posting sexualised deepfakes. Will they?
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Trump needs Venezuelan oil to power AI
Otherwise the US faces a future of energy scarcity
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AI teddy bears should not give bondage advice
We can’t let AI capture our children’s minds
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Can AI ever be cool?
At Anthropic’s brand event in Marylebone, the tech world’s usual radioactive dorkiness is almost wholly absent
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The real crisis of literacy – we’re reading too much
In the age of AI, with its blizzard of words, we should relish our pre-linguistic sensibilities
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The far right loves AI slop
Surreal imagery has been slipping into the British political consciousness. We should be wary
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The guru of the AI apocalypse
Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity
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Doomscrolling on Vibes, Meta’s new AI slop feed
Can the TikTok short video model work when nearly everyone involved is a bot?
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Inside the Tony Blair Institute
Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?
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Doomers records our AI angst
We have reached a strange moment in human imagination
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Dr AI will see you now
Human doctors may be fallible, but they have a tool that AI medicine will never have: judgement.
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The rise of the robot recruiter
AI is taking over the hiring process, but is this making the job-search fairer?
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Partner content
Artificial intelligence is coming for creatives. The question is how to make it fair
Freelance writers have faced a tough market for decades. Without better support, AI could be a tipping point.
Magic and divination in the age of AI
An event in London finds eerie common cause between computer scientists and tarot readers. Meanwhile, Nvidia conjures a market cap…
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Doctors, beware the AI scribe
The time I spend editing my computerised medical notes outweighs any productivity gains I get from not writing them.
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My friendships are my life. AI could never compete
ChatGPT’s sycophantism is nothing like a real friend.
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Reframing the private school debate
Also this week: AI and the value of creativity, and Prince Harry’s lessons on family feuds.
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