As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

NB. this is the draft introduction to the final chapter of my still-being-written book on AI and education (‘AI and education: the challenge of thinking differently’ Polity, due late 2026). As we h…

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…

A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times

Tekoälyllä tehdyt kuvat ovat olleet kaupungin sivuilla jo kaksi vuotta, mutta niiden käyttö nousi julkiseen keskusteluun tällä viikolla.

The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.

Technology's Distortions of Language Language is a vessel through which meaning is mutually constructed. From this shared imagination, we learn how others understand and aim to understand them. We also navigate how much of ourselves to put into this space. The imagination space is therefore negotiated through language: our thoughts

Are AI toys the future of playtime or a risk to emotional development? A collaboration between Mattel and OpenAI raises sobering questions.

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

In this extended briefing, “TL;DR” = “Totally Legit; Def. Read” because we review “The AI Con,” the spicy new book ready to rattle the broligarchy. Plus, the authors answer ESC KEY .CO’s questions about creative work — giving you something hot to talk about at your next power lunch, as ever. *Wink.*

This Is Not An Essay

A collection of zines from the DAIR Institute

Remarks from an in-person debate, 'L’IA en question, questions à l’IA', a two-day event at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on May 24/25. The event focused on debates about the role of AI in contemporary society.

A trio of specialists discusses how artists can respond to the environmental cost of generative AI with Diane Drubay

A response to UNESCO's call on AI and the Future of Education

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?

AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says Finnish philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela.

The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm

Students are resorting to extreme measures to fend off accusations of cheating, including hourslong screen recordings of their homework sessions.

1M AI Images = Water for 2,000 People. Still Worth the Likes? The Viral Trend with a Hidden Cost Social media is awash with AI-generated Studio Ghibli

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

Mikael Brunila argues for a politics of opacity in the face of AI dominance.

Tromssan kunnan kouluverkkoselvityksestä on kehkeytynyt tekoälysoppa, joka puhuttaa läpi valtakunnan.

Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuring of AI, Dan McQuillan sets out an anti-fascist approach that replaces exclusions with caring and outlines new mechanisms that support collective freedom.

Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.