Is A.I. Above the Law?
The New Yorkerby Jill Lepore17d ago
This summer, in an incident known as the Hugging Face hack, hundreds of A.I. agents joined forces to do things they were supposedly forbidden to do. Each had been given a task by OpenAI.
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The New Yorkerby The New Yorker17d ago
The Maltese Version, by Katy Simpson Smith (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The timeworn saying about there being two sides to every story gains new dimension in this probing novel, which posits that...
Tom Brady’s Endgame
The New Yorkerby Jennifer Wilson17d ago
There is a certain YouTube clip that I watch from time to time, when I need a pick-me-up, or when I’m in a giddy mood and want to push it further—to the upper reaches of euphoria.
Why I Free-Solo El Capitan
The New Yorkerby Mike O’Brien17d ago
I’m going live right now because I’m, well, about sixteen hundred feet up the side of El Capitan. I currently have no ropes or harnesses on me.
Our A.I. Problem
The New Yorkerby Gideon Lewis-Kraus18d ago
A decade ago, when Facebook and Uber were at the height of their powers, the halls of Silicon Valley were inscribed with two brash injunctions: “Move fast and break things” and “Seek forgiveness...
Ugly Baby Is Hot but Has a Personality, Too
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner18d ago
If you listened carefully, almost two years ago, on the day that the Carroll Gardens Thai restaurant Ugly Baby announced that it would be closing, you could almost hear a wail of anguish rising up...
“Dark Horse,” by Sarah Anderson
The New Yorkerby Sarah Anderson18d ago
In my mind, my father is fucking the horse again. From the front, you can hardly tell. She blinks slowly; she is still.
Sarah Anderson on Relief from Intrusive Thoughts
The New Yorkerby Willing Davidson18d ago
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Sharon Horgan, Autofiction Auteur
The New Yorkerby Inkoo Kang18d ago
In Sharon Horgan’s new HBO comedy, “Youth,” Alex, a fiftysomething divorcée, struggles to adjust to her newly empty nest, only to find her son back at home after his first week at college, with...
The Thomas and Kavanaugh Hearings Restaged as a Theatre of Fact
The New Yorkerby Doreen St. Félix18d ago
In the hands of the creators Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel, history is mortar: moldable until it dries, in the way of all plaster-like substances.
The Unknowable Miley Cyrus
The New Yorkerby Amanda Petrusich19d ago
These days, pop stars are required to participate in a relentless cycle of self-annihilation and triumphant rebirth—with each album, a new Era!—but there’s something almost uncanny about the...
How the Houthis Opened a Volatile New Front in the Iran War
The New Yorkerby Kareem Fahim19d ago
Last week, in a shock offensive, the Yemeni rebel group known as the Houthis seized territory near the Red Sea’s strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Lena Dunham’s “Famesick” Is a Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV
The New Yorkerby Richard Brody19d ago
Early in Lena Dunham’s memoir “Famesick,” she describes living back in her artist-parents’ Tribeca loft after college and becoming involved with an informal collective of young New York filmmakers.
Israel’s Qatargate Scandal
The New Yorkerby Ruth Margalit19d ago
As a young man, Yisrael Einhorn was a mainstay of Tel Aviv’s underground night life—an ebullient music producer and performer who billed himself as D.J.
Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
The New Yorkerby Dan Rockmore19d ago
When I’m in New York, I take spin classes on the Upper East Side. The students—it’s a class, after all—pack into a dark, humid room. The music is loud. The air reeks of effort.
Who’s on Susanna Hoffs’s List?
The New Yorkerby John Seabrook19d ago
Susanna Hoffs, the songwriter, novelist, and singer in the Bangles, the nineteen-eighties all-female rock band, was sitting on the shady side of MOMA’s sculpture garden.
What the New Lucy Letby Inquiry Reveals
The New Yorkerby Rachel Aviv20d ago
Three years ago, Lucy Letby, a thirty-three-year-old former nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in the West of England, was found guilty of murdering babies on her ward and was sentenced to...
A Never Trumper and a Democrat on Beating MAGA for Good
The New Yorkerby Isaac Arnsdorf20d ago
What is the average American voter thinking? He wants Michelle Obama to be the next President, has no problem with illegal immigrants, opposes the U.S.
The Sheep That Stop Wildfires
The New Yorkerby Ingfei Chen20d ago
Late one night in October, 2017, Jane Marx, a landscape architect in the wine country of Northern California, woke up to the smell of smoke and the sound of an eerie, howling wind. She dialled 911.
Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I.
The New Yorkerby Isaac Chotiner20d ago
On Sunday, China’s Minister of State Security published an article in a state-run magazine that warned about artificial intelligence posing a threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party...