Why Technologists Fail to Think of Moderation as a Virtue and Other Stories About AI
Evan Selinger argues that Ted Chiang’s fiction is more useful for understanding the dangers of AI than “Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI.”...
Ghost Hands, Player Pianos, and the Hidden History of AI
Vanessa Chang considers Obvious's "Portrait of Edmond de Belamy" and the history of AI artistry....
Demythologizing Testosterone
A new book tackles cultural stereotypes about masculinity and aggression....
Silicon Valley: A Region High on Historical Amnesia
In his review of O’Mara’s “The Code,” Patrick McCray describes how the federal government provided the tailwind that pushed Silicon Valley to stardom....
The Time Has Come to Talk About Oysters
Louise L. Schiavone reports on the decimation of tens of thousands of years’ worth of oyster reefs....
Why Are Women So Mean to Infertile Women?
Amy Klein reviews Alexandra Kimball's "The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue."...
No Memorial: On Gary Fuller’s “The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution — and How We Can Fight Back”
Linda Roland Danil investigates "The Invisible Killer" by Gary Fuller....
Earth First? On “The Ecocentrists” and Pregnancy in the Anthropocene
Lynne Feeley reviews "The Ecocentrists," a history of radical environmentalism by Keith Makoto Woodhouse....
Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?
Asif Siddiqi reviews Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."...
“Your Wireless Network”: Grappling with Hormones
Leslie Kendall Dye reviews "Aroused: A History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything" by Randi Hutter Epstein....
Bitcoin Dreams
Kevin Werbach considers the pitfalls and the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain, explored in three recent publications....
The Humanities in the Age of Loneliness
"Save the planet, read a book." Robert Newman on how to prevent the Eremocene....
