Charlie Warzel

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet.…

Too Much Is Happening Too Fast theatlantic.com

Wrote a big essay w/ @matteowong.bsky.social trying to put a finger on this moment in AI right now. The AI agent hacks, lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the industry is speeding toward something it can’t even decide is good and lecturing …

The Singularity Is Not What It Seems theatlantic.com

Got a theory that we are all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative p…

The Feeling of Control Slipping Away theatlantic.com

So the two DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT to cut all those grants and programs and who struggled to define DEI in that viral deposition footage have a new startup: DOGE for the public sector. I wrote about them and the myth of the “builder” as a disguise for something more ins…

The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot theatlantic.com

GOOD MORNING. IT'S @doctorow.pluralistic.net DAY ON THE PODCAST. The case for the AI Bubble, accountability sinks, why bosses love bots, his new book about the difference between centaurs & reverse centaur (using & being used by AI), & what resistance to AI looks like www.yout…

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DATA CENTERS POD (GIFT LINK). A podcast that includes the line: "the noise pollution is so profound that when you go there, you feel it in your body."

Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers theatlantic.com

Humans need friction. So does the economy. Wrote about Musing Ourselves to Death & what a future where the internet transforms into a place for AI assistants to perfect commerce. Spoiler: We talked to some smart ppl & it would be chaos! w/ @matteowong.bsky.social www.theatlant…

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wild @kait.bsky.social dispatch about how some of the anti-data center stuff online is, itself, weird AI slop www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

How Much of Data-Center Activism Is Really AI Slop? theatlantic.com

the brilliant @matteowong.bsky.social lived in a hacker house in SF and the dispatch is about as batshit as you’d expect www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The New (And Slightly Smelly) Center of the AI Boom theatlantic.com

Watching the AI doomer panic the last two weeks and I'm struck by all the strident certainty on display about a subject with little transparency and not very much certainty. I wrote about treating AI as an unexceptional crisis and what that involves. (gift link) www.theatlanti…

Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis theatlantic.com

gift link w/ transcript etc www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late theatlantic.com

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

I am trying to think of AI from a standard corporate accountability perspective and I found this line from the safety policy employee who quit to be the most succinct explanation of the concern. it doesn't need you to buy into any sci-fi narratives. it's all about scale/scope:

wake up babe the Trump administration chatbot is crashing out again

who will buy me the chatgpt basketball from the openai store