A bit more than five centuries ago, the Western world was facing convulsions even greater than our own today. Europeans had reached the Americas less than a quarter century earlier,…
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Why Graduates Are Booing Eric Schmidt (and the future of AI)
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You may have heard about how former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others giving graduation speeches referencing the upside potential of AI were booed by students. These boos reflect the…
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Consulting the Oracle of Delph.ai?
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In The AI Ten Commandments, I describe how all of our religious and spiritual traditions have been enabled by and mediated through technology. Controlling fire gave us the ability to…
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AI, Fraud, and Human Creativity
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Many people have reached out to me for my view on the decision by my former publisher, Hachette, to withdraw the book Shy Girl by Mia Ballard after analyses suggested…
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A 2025 Summer Reading List You’ve Never Imagined
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Two months ago, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Philadelphia Enquirer, and other news outlets across the country caused a firestorm when they mistakenly published a summer 2025 reading list written by…
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