Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
Altman continued touting OpenAI’s commitment to safety, especially when potential recruits were within earshot. In late 2022, four…
Love in the Time of A.I. Companions
“Probably all in the same place,” her friend offered, cheerily. A few minutes later, Brookins arrived in a…
Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece
On set, a young director named Victor Velle was rehearsing the train-station scene with the actors playing George…
What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?
After feeding Han’s writing into GPT-4o, Chakrabarty fine-tuned fresh versions of the model on the work of twenty-nine…
Will A.I. Destroy the Planet?
Are we helping to destroy the planet every time we ask ChatGPT a question? Stephen Witt joins us…
If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
It seems inevitable that the future of medicine will involve A.I., and medical schools are already encouraging students…
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises
Sigmund Freud, in “Family Romances,” writes that all of us, once we realize as children the uncertainty of…