He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?

It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth: 9781509540235: Economics Books @ Amazon.com

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim