4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) Published May 5, 2026 9:00 AM EDT The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s becoming one. In a new essay for UnHerd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic’s Claude — or “Claudia,…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (286+ words) Published Apr 22, 2026 1:03 PM EDT A year ago today, AI giant Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer, Jason Clinton, made a bold pronouncement: within the next year, AI-powered employees will begin traipsing around the virtual innards of big companies around the world....

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (388+ words) Published Apr 14, 2026 2:33 PM EDT Once you familiarize yourself with the characteristics of ChatGPT’s writing, it becomes impossible to miss. The internet has been flooded with AI-generated text that often features distinctive language patterns, from liberal use of em dashes and…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (404+ words) Published Feb 21, 2026 2:15 PM EST There’s a special type of guy who looks at the gig economy — Uber drivers lost in a labyrinthian bureaucracy, Kenyan workers roleplaying as AI romance chatbots — and thinks: what if these people worked for AI bosses…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (234+ words) Published Jan 26, 2026 8:59 AM EST A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (465+ words) Published Jan 22, 2026 9:17 AM EST The advent of generative AI has turned much of the internet into an unrecognizable flood plain of mind-numbing slop. In the latest sign of the times, the Economic Times — the second most widely-read English-language newspaper in…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago   (436+ words) Published Jan 12, 2026 3:15 PM EST To push back against AI, some call for blowing up data centers. If that’s too extreme for your tastes, then you might be interested in another project, which instead advocates for poisoning the resource that the…...

10+ mon, 5+ day ago   (432+ words) Published Nov 8, 2025 9:45 AM EST We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans. And though the tech…...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago   (594+ words) Published Nov 7, 2025 4:09 PM EST A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (536+ words) Published Sep 25, 2025 12:26 PM EDT Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days. They’re being kicked, punched, shoved, and even dragged by a chain around their neck — all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt…...