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What's So Inevitable About AI?
Why a future of help for poor farmers might be more likely than a future of artificial spouses
 • David Berreby
11 Ways of Looking at a Robot
Some beliefs about AI are true. Some are folly. Since we can't agree which is which, here's a look at some of the competing sects.
 • David Berreby
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, AI is From Bxzztgft
The unexpected downsides of AI that acts human
 • David Berreby
Why Did an AI Tell Me AI Probably Caused the Mass Killing of Children at an Iranian School?
Excess eagerness to please, too-confident tone, unstable picture of reality mixed with real insight and real sources -- 2026 AI in Microcosm
 • David Berreby
No Thoughts. No Desires. Yet It Speaks
An arcane literary theory may be our best explanation of AI
 • David Berreby
Life With AI: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3 Years Into the Era of AI for Everyone, I Take Stock of Its Impact on Me
 • David Berreby
What to Make of AI Re-Creations of the Dead
You Can't Understand Digital Ghosts Until You've Met One
 • David Berreby
What Explains 'Nerd Tunnel Vision' About Epstein?
It wasn't just the money that kept top scientists in his orbit
 • David Berreby
Will AI Companions Be Bad for Society?
Nobody knows for sure, but it's possible.
 • David Berreby
The AI Revolution Asks Us: What Kind of People Do We Want to Be?
Deciding You Can Skip This Question Is Tempting, But It’s a Dead End
 • David Berreby
Notes on the Coming AI-Companion Maybe-Crisis
With Millions Using AIs as Ersatz Friends, Therapists, Romantic Partners, or Sidekicks, a Backlash Is Forming
 • David Berreby
Can Humanity Break Up With Its 'Automatic Sweetheart'?
Making AI Seem Less Human Is a Good Idea. But We May Not Want It That Way
 • David Berreby
Robots for the Rest of Us
Robots for the Rest of Us
Robots & their AI. How we're changing them. How they're changing us.
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