The Will Stancil Show is art
The AI-generated cartoon is better than anything Comedy Central or Adult Swim has produced in the last 20 years
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Thursday
Tuesday
Why people are falling in love with chatbots
The social media platform Reddit now features a community entitled MyBoyfriendIsAI, with around 20,000 members
Tuesday
Why we must pull the plug on superintelligence
‘My best guess is that someone born today has a better chance of dying by AI than of graduating high school’
Wednesday
In love with a Luigi Mangione chatbot
Is it the future of romance?
Thursday
Larry Ellison briefly eclipses Elon Musk
After Oracle’s earnings report, the stock shot through the roof
Tuesday
AI is revolutionizing the film industry
‘It won’t be long,’ says Yonatan Dor, ‘before screen actors are a thing of the past’
Why do journalists go easy on Sam Altman?
OpenAI’s leader is a terrific huckster and self-promoter, in a league with Trump and Musk
Saturday
A Gen Z defense of America
Why it’s all going to be OK
Tuesday
Elon is coming for your marriage
Grown men – and increasingly, grown women – are building intimate, complex, sustained romantic relationships with AI
Monday
Alien: Earth is unfriendly and brilliant
What makes the show distinctive, and will undoubtedly account for its interest over future weeks, is its marriage between human consciousness and android bodies
Thursday
Trump gives the government to the machines
‘It’s not artificial, it’s genius’
Tuesday
The real threat of AI is spiritual
We’re primed to think of any existential threat from computers as fiction
What happens when AI surpasses humans?
Old technology doesn’t disappear because it’s bad: it disappears because it’s outcompeted
The race to superintelligence
Whoever owns the winning model will wield unimaginable power
Should AI have rights?
Some scientists believe they might be creating life
In the age of AI, humans must keep learning
We will need well-trained natural brains if we are to keep the artificial brains we have created under control
How should AI be regulated?
The mistakes and successes of earlier tech revolutions should be pondered
The 2020s are too far-fetched for fiction
There are too many loose ends. Too many vanishing subplots
The internet is dying and so are we
If we aren’t dead inside already, tech is doing its best
Monday
Musk’s chatbot stumbles again
No living human has had a week as tumultuous as Grok
