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Following a viral resignation, the backlash against AI safety was sudden and swift. Various signs suggest an industry push is supporting it.

Zhao Levi’s journey from an “Anti-AI Manifesto” to a proposed DSA working group opens a larger question: Can workers govern the machines that may one day make wage labor optional?

A high-profile disaster can make what seemed inevitable appear crazy.

The White House halted a planned executive order that would have put control over NIH research grants in the hands of political appointees.

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More politicians in the U.S. and around the globe are taking a look at sunlight-reflecting technologies, two experts said.

A small number of people are shaping what chatbots value. Those choices are already influencing how people think.

Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.

Scientists know very little about how TikTok and its copycats affect human cognition, but the signs aren’t good.

Bodies, SF, and Utopia

Episode 49 - Targeting at Machine Speed This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J speak with Major Michael Brodka, a U.S. Army military intelligence officer and author of the July 2026 Military Review a...

There is an emergent Silicon Valley gospel that has challenged both the boundaries and the mechanisms of shame in America, and it has a potential voice in the chatbot, Jay Caspian Kang writes.

We usually think of aging as something that catches up with us later in life.

Anthropic detailed several cases of governments using Claude to surveil people.

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The U.S. welfare state was built in moments when technical innovation collided with political reality. It can still offer the infrastructure for social protection under an economy reconfigured by AI.

Let’s learn from Nordic Countries: If America actually supported workers, we’d have a better shot at embracing technological change.

A Reckoning with the Woke Years; Gloria Steinem’s Feminism; and Central Asia Between a Rock and a Hard Place

From the Changesurfer Radio Archives

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Older female mice—equivalent in age to 60-year-old women—given daily injections of the active ingredient in Ozempic lived about 12 percent longer than animals that didn't receive the drug

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control.The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would permanently ban the development and deployment ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building…

The Vermont senator's proposal to ban artificial "superintelligence" comes on the heels of his push for a nationwide data center moratorium — and a series of troubling AI cyberattacks.

The proposed ban would come with tough penalties, but the path through Congress is uncertain

With new legislation, Sanders wants AI ‘superintelligence’ to be as radioactive as enriched uranium.

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AI can "help us quickly work through a workflow to separate noise from reality," a U.S. wildfire official says.

A new study tracks how FDA drug approvals shifted from multiple trials to just one, and who's paying for the evidence.

Episode 48 - Black Mirror Nir and J discuss the show Black Mirror, the now archetypal tech dystopian cultural phenomenon. In almost every episode, technology is the villain. What rarely appears is a l...

<p>Could there be a better form of government than the one we have now? As we enter an AI-powered world, when might we choose an AI leader? Will your grandchildren ever vote for a human president, who...