Tag: Innovation
Is AI lying? (And other reader questions, answered.)
For the last few years, we’ve been asking Future Perfect newsletter readers what their biggest questions are. And while we usually answer privately, we...
The Nvidia chip deal that has Trump officials threatening to quit
Whatever else can be said about the second Trump administration, it is always teaching me about parts of the Constitution I had forgotten were...
Are we living in the movie Her yet?
That “slight future” is, astonishingly, here. After all, AI-powered chatbots actually are a real thing now, and people are falling in love with them....
Mark Zuckerberg’s unbelievably bleak AI vision
Of all the many famous Steve Jobs stories that tech industry folks like to share, perhaps the single most famous is his 1983 pitch...
How the fight over what it means to be human has dramatically changed
Humans are the dominant species on a dying planet, and we’re still clinging to the idea that we can think our way out, invent...
How can you know if an AI is plotting against you?
The last word you want to hear in a conversation about AI’s capabilities is “scheming.” An AI system that can scheme against us is...
The brain tech revolution is here — and it isn’t all Black Mirror
When you hear the word “neurotechnology,” you may picture Black Mirror headsets prying open the last private place we have — our own skulls...
Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come
From the beginning, Elon Musk has marketed Grok, the chatbot integrated into X, as the unwoke AI that would give it to you straight,...
Is ChatGPT killing higher education?
What’s the point of college if no one’s actually doing the work?It’s not a rhetorical question. More and more students are not doing the...
