Science and Technology

The AI We Deserve

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

  • Evgeny Morozov
with responses from
  • Brian Eno
  • Audrey Tang
  • Terry Winograd
  • Bruce Schneier & Nathan Sanders
  • Sarah Myers West & Amba Kak
  • Wendy Liu
  • Edward Ongweso Jr.
  • Brian Merchant

Cultivating Meaning

Evgeny Morozov responds.

  • Evgeny Morozov

Learning from the Luddites

The key to an alternative is building a movement.

  • Brian Merchant

The Plot Against Finance

Any public agenda will have to take on Wall Street.

  • Edward Ongweso Jr.

Whose Values?

Boosters peddle the illusion of objectivity to avoid messy politics.

  • Wendy Liu

AI’s Missing Others

Those excluded from Silicon Valley point the way forward.

  • Sarah Myers West
  • Amba Kak

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Trust Issues

The closed corporate ecosystem is the problem.

  • Bruce Schneier
  • Nathan Sanders

Machines of Caring Grace

The goal should be to support humans, not to replace them.

  • Terry Winograd

The Real Legacy of Cybernetics

Lessons from the personal computing revolution.

  • Audrey Tang

AI’s Walking Dog

Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process.

  • Brian Eno

My Father, the Cyborg

The seductions of medical surveillance.

  • Omer Rosen

What AI Can’t Do for Democracy

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

  • Daniel Berliner

Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?

What Big Tech has done to our institutional and infrastructural imagination.

  • Evgeny Morozov

The Real Scandal of Campus Protest

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

  • Erik Baker

Can We Imagine a World Without Work?

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

  • Rachel Fraser

An Innovation System That Works

Before rushing to build the next DARPA, we need to assess the R&D model we have.

  • Andrew Schrank

Neither Governed nor Free

Even the singularity’s biggest boosters mostly concede that AI can’t create real works of art.

  • James Duesterberg

Our Avatars, Ourselves

Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?

  • Mala Chatterjee

Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

  • David J. Chalmers

The Question Concerning (Workplace) Technology

Will workers and the public get a say in how it’s used?

Can Innovation Serve the Public Good?

Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.

  • Shobita Parthasarathy

The Fake News about Fake News

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.

  • Daniel Williams

AI and the Specter of Automation

In a just world, productivity-enhancing technology would create more leisure and prosperity for everyone.

Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

  • Brishen Rogers
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