— Dispatches from the Human-Machine Frontier —
AI 'therapy' chatbots fail teens, the loneliness epidemic and the attention economy collapse into the same problem, and the Luddites get a careful re-reading. Copilot's agent mo...
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The Stanford AI Index confirms human scientists still trounce the best agents on complex research, an essay asks whether we're amusing ourselves to depth, and the AI Labor Repor...
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The hidden bill for cheap intelligence keeps arriving — an aging grid, slackening critical thinking, and a quieter enthusiasm for the whole parade. Capability outruns the conver...
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Hidden costs surface as intelligence gets cheap — a $25B environmental bill, voice chatbots tugging on our attention, and teenagers worried about losing the ability to think. Ca...
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A wheeled humanoid quietly hits real production numbers in Erlangen, Goldman puts a figure on the Gen Z jobs squeeze and Opus 4.7 crosses the human-expert baseline, and a UN pan...
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