In September of last year, I spoke with Evan Ratliff , the journalist and host of Shell Game about what it might be like to live in a...

In response to the election, many pointed their finger at the young, male swing to the right to explain Trump’s victory. In 2016 we had...

The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aims to drastically cut the U.S. federal budget and workforce. Just this...

Let's generate 'cold media,' shall we? In “Fragment the media! Embrace the shards!” I argued that we need to shift in seeing ourselves...

Crypto is having its moment in the sun following the election of President Trump. Across the board, crypto-backed candidates won Senate...

For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity The U.S’s pursuit of a multiracial...

When I wrote “ How do we work our way towards utopia? ” a question kept ringing in my head: ‘uh, what about the economic system we...

I’ve expressed concern about our over-reliance on direct, authoritative responses from chatbots. There’s no space to go back and forth...

In the summer of 1956, a group of 47 AI pioneers were invited to Dartmouth College to discuss the future of AI. All were men. All were...

Marshall McLuhan famously argued that the medium matters more than the content it carries: the medium is the message. E.g. TV has made...

…and it will misrepresent your personality to your friends and family. Enjoy! AI chatbots are being used by people to chat with synthetic...

Come, human. Ensconce yourself in the fine swaddling robes of rational perfectionism I’ve written a lot of words about how we...

Imagine if Uber built its driver network by offering drivers ‘Uber Tokens.’ Imagine further that these tokens functioned like equity,...

Should AI be open or closed? This is one of the most confusing debates raging in AI discourse at the moment. Those pursuing ‘open’ models...

Internet users, brace for the emergence of E-Swift In May of 2022, I tried to look around the corner and imagine the future of social...

Come with me on a journey through ordered and unordered systems I ’ve written about the false promise of emergence , and why AI doomers...

A while ago I wrote an Untangled piece called The Artificial Gaze , where I asked what society would be ‘optimized’ for if it was one big...

August 9th marked the nine-year anniversary of when police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black...

Imagine if society — for all its messy, entangled, complexity — were one big algorithmic system: what would it be optimized for? What are...

Apparently AI systems will continue to improve forever — but is that even possible? If you’ve only got a minute this Sunday, here’s the...