One of the weirdest conversations I've had recently. Had to cut that at one point he asked me if WIRED runs all my writing through an AI detector. www.wired.com/story/future...
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Kate Knibbs
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We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com
Mayo Clinic is Using AI to Listen to Emergency Room Visits 404media.co
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Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else | WIRED wired.com
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AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World | WIRED wired.com
I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now? | WIRED wired.com
Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch wired.com
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A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab wired.com
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The US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket wired.com
What’s Worth More Than Cash in San Francisco Real Estate? Anthropic Stock wired.com
I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too wired.com
This New AI Search Engine Has a Gimmick: Humans Answering Questions wired.com
AI bots are collecting debts — or at least trying to marketplace.org
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NEW: Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data.
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i love this kinda thing www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...
Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...
if you haven't read this @thiccreese.bsky.social saga yet about the frankly completely psychotic AI-fueled first-person video gig economy, i cannot recommend enough: www.wired.com/story/househ...
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After a weird experience with Norse Atlantic Airways a few weeks ago, I decided to file a FOIA request to the FTC Ends up, dozens have complained about Norse. It has no phone #, and its customer service relies on AI It’s a perfect situation for scammers: www.wired.com/story/no…
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A24 is collaborating with Google DeepMind as AI companies are deepening their ties to Hollywood—and struggling with a crisis of taste. We asked the studio about the backlash: www.wired.com/story/a24-kn...
EXCLUSIVE: Sat down with CFTC chairman Michael Selig to talk insider trading & AI: www.wired.com/story/polyma...
the SF housing market is very innovative in that it finds new ways to be completely fucking insane www.wired.com/story/whats-...
not great when you ask experts how it's going and they start talking about a "Chernobyl moment"... www.wired.com/story/ai-arm...
important update to this story i wrote in 2025... JustAnswer, the company offering the AI advice chatbot has now pivoted to offering GLP1s www.wired.com/story/this-n...
So glad to speak about my AI debt collectors feature on @marketplace.org. Give it a listen here! www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
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