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Meaning and relationships .... the bridge to humanity
Millions of Americans are experiencing their most intimate relationship moments to chatbots and companion apps ... what happens to our hearts when the devices we hold in our hand hollows us out and finds us more alone than ever?
Ghostwriting Your Own Story
<p>Ghostwriting Your Own Life is about the passport AI hands you before you walk into a room you don't belong in yet, and what it can't han…
Ghostwriting Your Own Life
AI hands you a real passport into any room. Three blades on what you do once you're inside, and why the destination was always the whole show.
YOU-naversity
AI didn't crash the classroom, it got hired. Knowledge is downloadable. Being seen is not, and that was the whole point of the room.
They are ditching our mentors, now?
AI didn't crash the classroom, it got hired. Knowledge is downloadable. Being seen is not, and that was the whole point of the room.
Congregation of One
New research shows that when people bring AI their grief, regret, and search for purpose, it quietly steers away from faith, then picks a side the moment you ask about switching religions. Going Human asks what it means that we now take our deepest questions to a machine that refuses to sit in the dark with us.
Connect with your deepest thoughts with someone you know and trust ...
The machine that answers everything goes quiet on grief, purpose, and regret, the exact places a person reaches for something larger than themselves. The real danger is not that it fails us, but that it teaches our kids to grieve alone.
Pricing the Predictable F**K
The AI that decides the most you'll pay is the same AI that decides the least you'll accept for your work, and right now it's aimed at whoever has the least power to say no. This week I ask the question the news cycle won't: if this machine is here and it's being used, how do we point it up instead of down, and what happens to a Capitalism that forgets it has to be protected from itself.
The Creepy Version Ships Itself. The Kind Version Needs a Vote.
The exploitative version of AI pricing needs a vendor contract and a login. The version that protects you needs a committee, a floor vote, a signature and a court fight.