The End of the European Summer
Although climate scientists warned in the nineteen-eighties that extreme heat posed a growing danger, policymakers in Europe didn’t…
Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods?
This time, the sound of hammering rain told her that trouble was coming. “The kids were doing our…
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…
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
Later, af Klint claimed—implausibly, according to some historians—that Steiner had warned her that the world was not ready for…
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises
Sigmund Freud, in “Family Romances,” writes that all of us, once we realize as children the uncertainty of…