A decade on, the technological implications of “The Stack” are still unfolding, challenging our sense of reality at every scale.
Benjamin H. Bratton | Feb 5
Tech titans keep imbuing AI with spiritual significance. The question is whether they’re building a savior — or a world-eating leviathan.
Shira Chess | Jan 29
The same technology that’s ruining essay writing as a pedagogical tool can help students learn how to reason via conversations.
David Weinberger | Jan 20
Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.
De Kai | Dec 15, 2025
Just as the camera once challenged painters, AI is giving rise to a new kind of creativity.
Danny Oppenheimer | Nov 17, 2025
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
Greg Epstein | Nov 22, 2024
Do AI-generated images have the capacity to further estrange, if not profoundly alienate, us from the world?
Anthony Downey | Sep 23, 2024
A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI's impact on jobs.
Julia Lane | Aug 9, 2024
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
Karen Bakker | Apr 11, 2024
It's exhilarating to think that, with the help of generative AI, anyone who can write can also write programs. It’s not so simple.
Michael L. Littman | Nov 20, 2023