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Science

Palantir’s military-industrial plan for America.

David Austin Walsh

Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.

Eric Reinhart, Craig Spencer

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

Lily Hu

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.

Sophia Goodfriend

The battle over copyright in the age of ChatGPT.

Alexander Hartley

Forum

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

Evgeny Morozov with Brian Eno, Audrey Tang, Terry Winograd, and others

The seductions of medical surveillance.

Omer Rosen

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

Daniel Berliner

Introducing our Fall 2024 issue.

Boston Review

Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions.

Paolo Giordano

On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.

Elaine Scarry

How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.

Kevin P. Donovan

The colonial making of Taiwan’s chip supremacy.

Brian J. Chen

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

Evgeny Morozov

For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

Hannah Proctor

Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Rachel Fraser

AI-generated novels are here, but they hardly spell the end of fiction.

Terry Nguyen
Andrew Schrank

On art in the age of generative AI.

James Duesterberg

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

Amy Kapczynski, Christopher Morten, Reshma Ramachandran

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

Mala Chatterjee

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

David J. Chalmers

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

Angus Deaton

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