2024 was a critical year in both AI and social media. Things moved so fast it was hard to keep... more

Religious thinking is shaping the future of technology: AI is talked about as a godlike force and tech leaders promise... more

Sewell Setzer’s mom, Megan, is suing Character.ai for the role it played in her son’s death. The outcome could force... more

Megan Garcia lost her son Sewell to suicide after he was abused and manipulated by AI chatbots for months. Now,... more

AI has unleashed a flood of synthetic media onto the web, making it more difficult than ever to tell what’s... more

Historian Yuval Noah Harari says that we are at a critical turning point. One in which AI’s ability to generate... more

Computer scientist Gary Marcus has been called AI’s loudest critic, and he predicts AI’s exponential curve will soon flatten out.... more

As companies race to roll out more capable AI models–with little regard for safety–the downstream risks become harder to counter.... more

[This episode originally aired on August 17, 2023] AI is harming our relationships, warns acclaimed psychotherapist Esther Perel. What would... more

Today, the tech industry is the second-biggest lobbying power in Washington, DC, but that wasn’t true as recently as... more

It’s been a year and half since Tristan and Aza laid out their vision and concerns for the future of... more

AI has been a powerful accelerant for biological research, rapidly opening up new frontiers in medicine and public health. But... more

Will AI ever start to think by itself? If it did, how would we know, and what would it... more

In response to the growing global refugee crisis, governments are employing novel AI and surveillance technologies to slow the influx... more

Whistleblower William Saunders quit over systemic issues at OpenAI. Now he’s put his name to an open letter that proposes... more

Today’s battlefields have become laboratories for the use of AI weaponry and drones. From Ukraine to Gaza, weapons systems with... more

Tech companies say that AI will lead to massive economic productivity gains. But as we know from the first digital... more

Suicides. Self harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It... more

Beneath the race to train and release more powerful AI models lies another race: a race by companies and nation-states... more

Is there a vision of our future where AI can help our democracies thrive, rather than just survive? With... more