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I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again
When a flattering email arrived inviting me to participate in an AI venture called Rebind that I’d later come to think will radically transform the entire way booklovers...
The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots
I’ve had many conversations over the years about life extension, and the idea often meets resistance. People become upset when they hear of an individual whose life has...
If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
You put a stake in the ground with your book The Singularity Is Near. This one is called The Singularity Is Nearer. How do you define the singularity?To...
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else...
Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve
On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a greenscreen to shoot a...
I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty
I liked the idea that my foremost duty as an OnlyFans chatter should be to comfort the afflicted rather than wheedle the sexually frustrated into buying pricey “nudes...
