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Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

Neuralink has implanted a chip in its first human brain. But it’s pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say.

By Sigal Samuel

AI that’s smarter than humans? Americans say a firm “no thank you.”

Exclusive: 63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals.

By Sigal Samuel

What normal Americans — not AI companies — want for AI

By Sigal Samuel

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How “windfall profits” from AI companies could fund a universal basic income

By Dylan Matthews

Please don’t turn to ChatGPT for moral advice. Yet.

By Sigal Samuel

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Finally, a realistic roadmap for getting AI companies in check

By Sigal Samuel

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AI is flooding the workplace, and workers love it

By Rani Molla

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What happens when ChatGPT starts to feed on its own writing?

By Sigal Samuel

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AI leaders (and Elon Musk) urge all labs to press pause on powerful AI

By Sigal Samuel

Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?

By Kelsey Piper

Your brain may not be private much longer

By Sigal Samuel

Here comes Bard, Google’s version of ChatGPT

By Shirin Ghaffary

The FAA is struggling. Who can save it?

By Rebecca Heilweil

5 unintended consequences of the EV revolution

By Rebecca Heilweil

Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

By Rebecca Heilweil

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What is generative AI, and why is it suddenly everywhere?

By Rebecca Heilweil

Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

By Sara Morrison

The year EVs outgrew Tesla

By Rebecca Heilweil

NASA’s latest moon mission is the dawn of a new space age

By Rebecca Heilweil and Ellen Ioanes

AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem

By Rebecca Heilweil

“Stealing customers’ money is a tale as old as time.”

By Rebecca Heilweil

Biden’s hugely consequential high-tech export ban on China, explained by an expert

By Michael Bluhm

TikTok won’t stop serving me horror and death

By Sara Morrison

This next-generation video game requires a prescription

By Rebecca Heilweil

This year’s physics Nobel Prize went to pioneers in quantum tech. Here’s how their work could change the world.

By Bryan Walsh

It’s the end of the car as we know it

By Rebecca Heilweil

Airlines are trying to resurrect the Concorde era

By Rebecca Heilweil

The CHIPS Act won’t solve the chip shortage

By Rebecca Heilweil

We’re one step closer to robots doing all our housework

By Rebecca Heilweil

Now might be a good time to think about crypto insurance

By Rebecca Heilweil

The problem with schools turning to surveillance after mass shootings

By Rebecca Heilweil

The future of 911 is a little bit creepy

By Rebecca Heilweil

NASA’s moon dust monopoly is finally ending

By Rebecca Heilweil

The neon shortage is a bad sign

By Rebecca Heilweil

Inheriting bitcoin is harder than it sounds

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why 5G is causing flight cancellations

By Rebecca Heilweil

New technologies are promising a shortcut to enlightenment

By Sigal Samuel

AI’s Islamophobia problem

By Sigal Samuel

The chip shortage is getting worse

By Rebecca Heilweil

Citizen, the controversial safety app, is ready to profit from its fear-based platform

By Sara Morrison

People keep finding late loved ones on Google Maps

By Rebecca Heilweil

The future of AI is being shaped right now. How should policymakers respond?

By Kelsey Piper

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