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Descartes drew a line between humans and machines. AI is blurring it.
René Descartes drew a line between humans and machines. AI is blurring it.

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4 hours ago1 min read
How much does Claude’s constitution actually matter?
Anthropic wants Claude’s constitution to be more than an ideal by the end of 2026. After a summer of misalignment incidents, researchers have a lot of questions.

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1 day ago1 min read
Chatbots aren’t just flattering us. They’re helping us decide what’s real.
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

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2 days ago1 min read
The Hidden Signal That Predicts Who Will Become a Future CEO
An analysis of earnings calls over 10 years finds that inviting colleagues to speak makes an executive seem more cooperative and collaborative

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2 days ago1 min read
Voters Rejected A.I. in the Midterms. Now Comes an Era of Scrutiny
After two years of little A.I. oversight, voters on Tuesday rejected data center projects and swept into office Democratic candidates who promised to regulate the technology. Related

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2 days ago1 min read
10 perspectives that divide the AI world
AI will likely impact everything from the economy to the battlefield, but exactly how remains to be seen.

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2 days ago1 min read
When AI Makes Unacceptable Decisions Feel Normal
The more we use AI, the more it can start to shape our judgment, warns Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.

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2 days ago1 min read
The Good Apology
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer and Columbia’s Adam Galinsky explain how effective apologies rebuild trust through accountability and action.

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2 days ago1 min read
Why do so few in the U.S. seem concerned about depleted Social Security funds in 6-8 years?
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3 days ago1 min read
Defining and strengthening the built environment workforce
The modern world relies on a range of physical, human-made assets and systems that undergird daily life and make up the built environment. Spanning highways and railways, pipes and power plants, and homes and businesses, the built environment is expansive and foundational to the country’s economy. In turn, these structures rely on an appropriately educated and skilled workforce to design, build, and maintain them. While employers, policymakers, and other leaders widely acknow

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3 days ago1 min read
The Time Is Right for a ‘Great Books’ Revival
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

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3 days ago2 min read
How Georgia O'Keeffe painted architecture
An exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts is painting a different portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, best known for her depictions of flowers and desert landscapes.

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3 days ago1 min read
A wonderful (& giving) life
During the Second World War, Academy Award-winning actor James Stewart answered his nation's call, serving as a pilot in the Army Air Corps. He flew 20 successful missions, and came home from WWII a different man. Stewart's fight to be able to fight despite his celebrity, and his emotional post-war return to the screen in "It's a Wonderful Life," are the subjects of the film "Jimmy." Lee Cowan talks with actors K.J. Apa (who plays Stewart), and Max Casella (who plays director

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3 days ago1 min read
The Next Phase of AI
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.

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5 days ago1 min read
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Happy’ at Work?
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘The Insider Advantage,’ Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell examines what provides a fulfilling career, as well as which jobs have the highest and lowest job satisfaction.

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5 days ago1 min read
Spotting narcissism: A psychologist’s guide to identifying and healing from narcissism
Clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula explains what narcissism really is, how to spot it, and why most of what circulates online gets it wrong.

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How the U.S. Is Dismantling Its Scientific Research Machine
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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Why some people get stuck in research mode
3 ways to escape research mode and start doing things

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Oct 301 min read
This widely touted retirement move isn’t all it’s made out to be
Roth conversions can be a strategic tax-savings move, but it’s important to make sure the math works out in your favor.

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Oct 301 min read
You Can’t Stop A.I. But You Can Bargain With It.
Workers are increasingly worried that artificial intelligence will take their jobs. Back in the late 1950s, on the San Francisco docks just down the street from what’s now Anthropic’s headquarters, a longshore labor leader named Harry Bridges faced a similar fear: that a new technology would make jobs disappear. The Opinion video details the story of how Bridges fought to make technological change work for his longshoremen — and how workers today can use his playbook.

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Oct 281 min read
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