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In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
Stone, a signatory of the letter, says he does not agree with everything in it, and is not personally concerned about existential dangers. But he says advances are happening...
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
“Happy to talk about it if this is interesting,” Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, texted Elon Musk last spring. He continued, opaquely: “Twitter conversational OS—the townsquare for...
Twitter’s ‘Vox Populi’ Is a Lie
In the year 798, the noted scholar Alcuin of York penned a letter to Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards, to (as was his wont) advise the...
For Black Folks, Digital Migration Is Nothing New
Among Black folks, on the occasion of being invited to an event, a common question is, “Who gone be there?” In other words, the essential question for determining...
The Trumpification of Elon Musk
Around the time Trump was inaugurated in 2017, I said to colleagues in the newsroom where I worked at the time that we shouldn’t cover everything he said...
Let Twitter Devolve Into Porn
“I am mad for it to be in contact with me,” Walt Whitman wrote, of what he called “life’s atmosphere.” No doubt he also meant contact with the...
