AI psychosis may be the most visible example of something much bigger and stranger. Excerpt: "LLMs influence our beliefs not just because they agree with us. They influence our beliefs because they are socially participating in reality with us. What makes something feel real isn’t that we say we believe it. Rather, it’s that our experiences exist in a world we share with others. For most of human history, new technologies have extended our cognitive capacities. Now they are p

Bank Hapoalim gave shares to customers, many of whom had never invested before.

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The leaders of Ralston College attempt to revive our culture by teaching ancient Greek to their humanities grad students. Excerpt: "Mr. Blackwood sees these students as “the Navy SEALs of Western civilization, prepared to do the heavy lifting of regeneration. It’s a small beginning, but they go out and carry the flame with them.” The gentler Mr. Conlon clarifies that these “Navy SEALs are humanists. The most essential ingredient is a stance of gratitude and love toward the tr

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To build a better world in the age of AI, students need grounding in indispensable ideas. Excerpt: "In 1970, the poet, educator, and architect June Jordan posed the following question during a middle-school graduation speech in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn: “Where are the central, required courses that will teach us our real heritage of heroes and heroines, rebellion, and loving accomplishment?” Questions like this are at the forefront of my mind lately. Like Jordan, I’m a writer who

....while the United States and China are still economic and strategic rivals jostling for advantage, they both realize that there is now an intruder into their two-superpower marriage: the superempowered bad actor.

In an excerpt from his new book, 'Co-Existence,' Wharton’s Ethan Mollick explores AI’s rapid advances and their inevitable impact on how we work and live.

DM Good morning! What are your thoughts, concerns and estimates of likelihoods that, if this interview offers overall truth about Musk's agenda, he will ultimately succeed? Good morning. I’ll research this before estimating anything. The interview comes from two critics making strong claims, so I’ll check those claims and bring in the strongest counter-readings. I’ll treat “success” as several separate questions rather than one: the near-term political and midterm effects, e

The once-bustling corridors of the State Department are tomblike as ambassadors scrape for information

Artificial intelligence (AI) could raise productivity across a wide range of occupations and tasks. But it could also replace workers who currently perform some of those tasks. How many workers AI might replace, and how quickly, remains an open question. These questions matter for the federal budget because the U.S. tax system relies heavily on income earned by workers. Individual income and payroll taxes generate roughly 85% of federal tax receipts.

The warning, buried in an obscure government report this summer, was unflinching. The Defense Department’s vaunted network of research laboratories — whose scientists helped develop satellite communication, radar technology, and even the computer mouse — was in trouble. The labs lost a significant share of their staff last year, largely in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to thin the federal work force, the report found. Refilling critical positions was proving

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It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10? Excerpt: "In their applications and in interviews, students expressed the urge to be forced to tackle classics they otherwise wouldn’t read, the need to combat frayed attention spans and the desire for an antidote to The Machine. Several mentioned with disdain that people who aren’t in the class wondered why they didn’t “just Chat the books,” i.e., use AI. “A lot of what