A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.

Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

“This book is downright scary — but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered…

Don’t take the tech moguls’ apocalyptic muttering at face value, writes Paul M. Barrett. Instead, view it as a misdirection play.

Twenty years ago, United States senator Ted Stevens drew long-lasting online ridicule by describing the internet as 'a series of tubes.' While some commentators noted that the analogy wasn't quite as ...

Turning a big dial that says "invasion of privacy" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval.

In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.

Building institutional trust needs to come hand-in-hand with building a resilient public, argue Marco Perolini and Daniel Joloy.

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

This conference proposes to examine noise as a position of reference across technical, social, and cultural domains, bringing together insights from machine learning, critical AI studies, media theory...

A year before Robin Cook’s Invasion (1997)—in which an alien force activated a latent biological virus in humans—and almost a decade before...

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

Chandra Clarke Under Review:Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice. Eds. Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and Jordan S. Carroll. The MIT Pre…

Al Warburton sees new world model architectures as AI’s teen goth phase.

I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

A team of believers want the Vatican to take AI doomsday scenarios seriously.

Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October

Avery Singer, Simon Denny, Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Jon Rafman discuss – with the help of a generated AI – what the future holds

Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof.

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.

Will AI-powered education mean asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework—or strapping on a headband that streams your brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, the latter is already here. At ...

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...