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why your boss is obsessed with a.i. past the point of sanity

Not only is the C-suite not immune to AI psychosis, they seem to be primed to suffer the worst of it as their employees duck and cover.
why your boss is obsessed with a.i. past the point of sanity

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why so many of us are just not that into chatbots

AI adoption is at an all time high, but opinion of AI keeps on tumbling with every poll and study on the subject.
why so many of us are just not that into chatbots

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no, your chatbots aren't secretly marxists at heart

But they can and do detect and complain about unfair treatment when asked, according to an experiment by Stanford researchers.
no, your chatbots aren't secretly marxists at heart

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when ai becomes an exercise in existisitential boredom

Social media's AI zealots are cheering an exercise in complexity and reinventing the wheel for the sake of complexity and reinventing the wheel.
when ai becomes an exercise in existisitential boredom

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the people who surrender their minds to machines

Some people are volunteering to hand over all their thinking to AI with serious implications for society.
the people who surrender their minds to machines

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why everyone's code is suddenly written by ai

The dirty open secret behind why so many companies are trusting so much of their code to chatbots.
why everyone's code is suddenly written by ai

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quantum of bitcoin: the end of money as we know it

Magic internet money is quietly racing an existential threat from quantum computing, as is all encryption used today.
quantum of bitcoin: the end of money as we know it

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the bot takeover of the web is faster than ever

Bots have either just overtaken humans as the majority users of the web, or are just about to. And it's only going to get worse.
the bot takeover of the web is faster than ever

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how to get ghosted, with technical benefits

With a new look and feel and years of posts back together under one roof, this update has been a long time coming...
how to get ghosted, with technical benefits

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how ai can love bomb you into being an asshole

In ads, chatbots are omniscient arbiters and truth brokers. In practice, they're sycophantic enablers according to the latest research.
how ai can love bomb you into being an asshole

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the great theoretical chatbot job apocalypse

According to Anthropic, LLMs can obliterate most white collar jobs. Well, theoretically...
the great theoretical chatbot job apocalypse

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i prompt, therefore i am: how tech forgot about human agency

Tone deaf tech bros no longer seem to understand that their pitch for AI is fundamentally dystopian and dismissive.
i prompt, therefore i am: how tech forgot about human agency

is the future of social media the same as its past?

Why breaking the grip of giant social media platforms may require a major step back into the web's early days.
is the future of social media the same as its past?

why social media is ignoring a.i. slop

Social media isn't for people anymore. It's for bots, AI, investors, and metrics.
why social media is ignoring a.i. slop

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the syn/ack-gogue of a.i. doomsday

Thanks to an explosion of cheap computing power, AI is advancing faster than ever. But one of it's high priests seems to be firmly stuck in the past millennium...
the syn/ack-gogue of a.i. doomsday

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