It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.
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A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.
AI could make our human interactions blander, more biased, or ruder.
The AI boom only underscores a problem that has existed for years.
Artificial intelligence is already showing up in political ads. Soon, it will completely change the nature of campaigning.
The sins of FTX aren’t the only problem the crypto world needs to pay for.
Sometimes a little security theater isn’t the worst thing.
Twitter and companies like it are essential to the functioning of the economy and the country. The government needs to start treating them that way, and that means both requiring them to do a better job on security and breaking them up.
They’re mouthpieces for foreign actors, domestic political groups, even the candidates themselves. And soon you won’t be able to tell they’re bots.
But most of us aren’t the president of the United States.
Unprecedented computer-chip vulnerabilities exposed this month paint a grim picture of the future of cybersecurity.