The art of staying human in an AI age
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence in practice — what it changes, who it concentrates power for, and how it lands in the businesses and policies of the technology economy.
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A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled researchers was this: a third had turned to a bot, not a person, for a serious conversation
In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens found that 72% had tried an AI companion at least once and 52% used one regularly.
AI just beat the average human on a creativity test involving 100,000 people, and the researchers say the real question is whether the gap between average and exceptional will hold
The headline writes itself and, predictably, wrote itself badly in most places it appeared.
The UK's Online Safety Act gives Ofcom the power to fine platforms 10% of their global revenue, which for Meta alone would be over $16 billion, and the enforcement unit responsible for issuing those fines has fewer than 50 staff
The UK's Online Safety Act gives Ofcom theoretical penalty powers larger than the GDP of small countries. The team that actually issues those fines has fewer than 50 staff — and Meta is now in the High Court trying to shrink the formula.
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable public AI model, and will hand your conversation to a weaker model the moment it detects a biology or chemistry question — Anthropic admits the net is overly broad and plans to narrow it
On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos class — a family the company had previously declined to release at all, citing the models' enhanced ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities.
MIT Media Lab and OpenAI tracked nearly 1,000 ChatGPT users for four weeks, but the early finding cut against the comfort the chatbot promised — heavier daily use was tied to more loneliness and emotional dependence
Picture someone at the end of a long day.
Everyone saw the AI backlash coming — fewer expected it to start with the generation raised on screens
In May, the former chief executive of Google stood at a podium at the University of Arizona, looked out at the class of 2026, and told them artificial intelligence was about to remake the world the way the computer once did.
If you find yourself telling an AI things you'd never say to your partner, your therapist, or your best friend, you're not broken — you're just exhausted from performing
You already know this version of yourself.
I’m 37 and I used to think AI would make people more productive - now I think it mostly exposes how much of modern work was never meaningful to begin with
Like most people who work for a living, I assumed AI was going to be a productivity tool.
Why self-taught generalists may dominate as AI rewrites the rules of work
Last year, I was catching up with an old friend over a round of golf.
Research suggests people entering the workforce today are on track to hold roughly twice as many jobs over their careers as people 15 years ago, and 70% of skills used in most jobs may change by 2030
People entering the workforce today are on track to hold roughly twice as many jobs over their careers as people did 15 years ago.
No one expected the generation born into technology to be so cautious of AI. Are Gen Z onto something older generations are missing?
There's something deeply counterintuitive buried in some recent Gallup figures, and I think it's worth sitting with for a moment.