The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, in an apparent assassination this week has led to an outpouring of ...

This past February, I noticed that one of the cameras at my parents’ apartment had gone dark. I scanned through the footage: backward quickly, until I saw my father shuffling about, like a stop-motion ...

For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, ...

Thoreau’s adage “beware of all enterprises that require new clothes” should perhaps be updated to “beware of all enterprises that require venture capital.” Morozov argues that AI itself has much to ...

I’ve spent so many years among the Luddites—among oral histories, archived letters, and old newspaper articles about them—that there are scenes from their history that are so seared into my brain, ...

In September 2023, Joe Biden became the first sitting president to walk a picket line when he joined striking United Auto Workers in Wayne County, Michigan. A decade earlier, under the Obama ...

I confess I’ve become weary of reading about AI. I am tired of the self-serving mythologizing of its proponents. I am also tired of thinking about its horrific environmental impact, its potential for ...

Morozov poses a provocative question, asking how AI might have been directed to different ends than the ones that drive the runaway industry today. As with any technology, we need to question both the ...

I’m grateful for these thoughtful responses, many of which grapple with the central question of how to bring “AI’s missing Other” into existence. Before engaging with their specific proposals, however ...

In our moment of profound inequality and global crisis, now flush with chatbots and simulated images, Morozov is right that we sorely need a clearer articulation of the world we do want to live in, ...

Morozov’s paean to “ecological reason” is a breath of fresh air, demonstrating how the Cold War perverted not only AI development but our capacity to imagine alternatives—technological forms ...

Morozov rightly calls for us to turn away from the seductive AI narrative of replicating human capabilities in autonomous machines, toward a rich older tradition of cybernetics and Deweyan pragmatism, ...