Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical “on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” ...

This is so well understood that we now have cultural phenomena such as Godwin’s Law, the theory that online debates ...

But a lot of this is subtler—a deepening of the bewildering, corrosive feeling Read previously described. Culturally, the flood of slop, AI influencers, fake accounts, and AI tools is blurring the ...

If a Ferrari is an object of spectacle, an Apple device is an object of function. The Apple product, whether it’s a laptop, ...

Federal stakes in public companies may enrich the government, but they are bad for America.

The World War II drama has been a hearty staple of the film industry’s diet for more than 80 years—even as Hollywood has turned away from the kind of meat-and-potatoes offering that the genre ...

A discussion on the state of negotiations in Iran, what the future may hold for Ukraine, the U.S.’s relationship with Cuba, and more ...

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The National Science Foundation division the covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the Trump administration’s crosshairs.

For months, the dwindling ranks of staffers at the Kennedy Center have been bracing for July, when the Washington, D.C., arts complex had been slated to shut down. How the bruised institution would ...

Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a ...

AI remixes exist in a legal gray area. It took me all of 30 seconds to generate an AI clone of Kendrick Lamar’s voice for a “Not Like Us”–style diss track against the color blue. And it was just as ...