“How a card-playing Siberian AI outsmarted the world’s brightest researchers and raked in millions.”
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Wild Talk: A Reading List On Artificial Intelligence and Interspecies Communication
AI is opening up the possibility of communicating with other animals. But will we listen? And can we ever truly understand?
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I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again
“Even if it was technically feasible and Dubuque was legit, did I really want to be involved in this?”
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Dear Tim Cook: Be a Decent Human Being and Delete this Revolting Apple Ad
“This ad breaks things. By implication, it threatens to break people, or at least their livelihoods.”
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The Teens Making Friends with AI Chatbots
“But Hawk still finds it easier to chat with character.ai bots than real people.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The April 12 edition features stories by Stephanie McCrummen, Mark Warren, Trina Moyles, Laura Preston, and Jack King.
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‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza
“The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties.”
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Memento Mori
“Surveillance is just one aspect of how a creepy gimmick has come to contend with eternity.”
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The Last Stand of the Call-Centre Worker
“AI is poised to eliminate customer-service agents. We’ll miss them when they’re gone.”