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In my decades as a cultural anthropologist studying authoritarianism in Russia and the United States, I’ve learned that one of power’s most useful tricks is making responsibility vanish. Autocrats ...

Jacob Coxon, the researcher who resigned from Anthropic last week, ended his now-famous tweet thread by asking his former colleagues whether they really want to train a superintelligent AI “without a ...

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Hakushi Hasegawa had spent too much time alone. The 27-year-old Tokyo artist has spent nearly a decade exploding familiar sounds into alien forms, slamming frantic keyboard melodies against ...

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With Toy Story 5, Pixar’s existentially restless series moves past ruminations on how toys remain frozen in time as their human owners age to ask what even is a toy in the age of widespread tech ...