Blood in the Machine

It’s been a big week for Anthropic, the tryhard “good guy” of AI; the startup that has built its brand as the “ethical” AI lab by positioning itself as an alternative to the unscrupulous OpenAI, from which Anthropic’s co-founders famously defected. That positioning, by way of some canny marketing work and disciplined brand strategy, has paid off handsomely. On Thursday, Anthr...

As AI sweeps through the American education system and US tech workers stare down the specter of mass layoffs, thousands of IT employees across the statewide University of California system have voted to unionize. They join over 6,000 tech workers already represented by University and Professional Technical Employees (UPTE), expanding the total to 8,400 workers across the bar...

When a commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida intoned that “AI is the next industrial revolution,” she was met with a chorus of thundering boos from the graduating students in attendance. The mass disapproval left the orator, Gloria Caulfield...

Generative AI has upended few fields as thoroughly or as rapidly as the visual arts. Over the last few years, I’ve written a lot about the ways AI has impacted working artists; I’ve interviewed illustrators pursuing class action lawsuits against AI...