Social media bots make up a sizable portion of internet traffic on the most prominent social media platforms; they are designed to mimic human users on a large scale, either partially or fully ...
The most dangerous part of AI might not be the fact that it hallucinates—making up its own version of the truth—but that it ceaselessly agrees with users’ version of the truth. This danger is creating ...
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Getty; Pierre Michaud / Gamma-Rapho / Getty. With respect to Andrews, in the midst of all this—the testosterone-addled executive branch ...
In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords, our goal is simple: Tell the truth ...