Thoreau’s adage “beware of all enterprises that require new clothes” should perhaps be updated to “beware of all enterprises that require venture capital.” Morozov argues that AI itself has much to ...

As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, ...

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In an interview in May, the head of the Israeli military intelligence’s targeting division responded to outrage over the civilian death toll in Gaza by boasting that algorithmic surveillance systems ...

Zachary Tyler Vickers is the author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the recipient of the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Richard Yates Prize, the ...

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The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, in an apparent assassination this week has led to an outpouring of popular rage against health insurance companies from across the political ...

I’ve spent so many years among the Luddites—among oral histories, archived letters, and old newspaper articles about them—that there are scenes from their history that are so seared into my brain, ...

Morozov’s paean to “ecological reason” is a breath of fresh air, demonstrating how the Cold War perverted not only AI development but our capacity to imagine alternatives—technological forms ...

I confess I’ve become weary of reading about AI. I am tired of the self-serving mythologizing of its proponents. I am also tired of thinking about its horrific environmental impact, its potential for ...

Morozov rightly calls for us to turn away from the seductive AI narrative of replicating human capabilities in autonomous machines, toward a rich older tradition of cybernetics and Deweyan pragmatism, ...

In our moment of profound inequality and global crisis, now flush with chatbots and simulated images, Morozov is right that we sorely need a clearer articulation of the world we do want to live in, ...