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Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
Opinion | These Things Are Computers. Stop Talking About Them as if They’re Human. nytimes.com
‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers wired.com
Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. nytimes.com
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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence blog.google
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Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods' npr.org
AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World | WIRED wired.com
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Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations nytimes.com
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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Tim Carmody reposted
In the interest of being a good professor, if you want to read the pertinent sections of Magnifica Humanitas on slavery, the "apology" and the implications for AI, skip to sections 172-181 of the Encyclical.
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- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
- The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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There are many kinds of intelligence, and not all of them are ours. To have intelligence, to cheat, to have goals is not innately human. It does not imply the existence of a soul. (“Sin” might.) Virtually all organisms can “cheat.” If you’re going to be a dick about terms, i w…
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I interviewed Mamdani for @wired.com just ahead of today’s midterms. We talked about data centers, AI, how tech continues to weaken democracy, and James Dolan’s MSG surveillance — which he opposes for the first time on the record:
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- NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani told WIRED he sees AI as a potential bubble and answered yes when asked whether it could pop.
- He said he supports New York state's proposed one-year pause on data center construction.
- His city-level AI agenda includes a ban on generative AI for students from 2K through eighth grade and limits on chatbot 'doom loops.'
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Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
blog.google/innovation-a...
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IPO filing: Anthropic's seven co-founders will initially have 50.1% of the total voting power through a new "Founder LLC" aimed at serving the common good (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
I like what Kevin and Casey do (and have known them both for years) but this is a smite-me-with-thunderbolts-ass title www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g...
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- Kevin Roose and Casey Newton will host Machine Gods, a video-first, twice-weekly AI show launching on NPR in October 2026.
- The program rolls out to the NPR Member station radio network in early 2027, with production based in San Francisco.
- NPR Chief Content Officer Nadine Zylstra framed the pickup as a strategic expansion of the network's digital slate.
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"Their tone may be deferential, even sycophantic, but they never fly off the handle. They also never sleep. Their edge comes from persistence and scale."
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I want you to notice how the New York Times does not think it's important to mention that both the OpenAI and Anthropic "AI gone rogue" hack events were completely avoidable and caused by human error
This is the canonical blog post for GPT-6 Astra (linked on X) but it won't load for me. openai.com/index/gpt-6-...
I've been thinking about this for a while, but proximally, I'm riffing on this already much-discussed Ted Chiang article www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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If my publication makes me start calling AI “super intelligence,” I will start fires
I’m glad AI companies are making efforts to at least appear open to working with mathematicians and other scientists, but it is striking that there weren’t similar efforts, even pro forma ones, to partner with writers, artists, and musicians. Even for movies, they had to be brought to the table
Nobody's making an AI agent to get regular employees automatically reimbursed for their business expenses because that requires access to somebody else's money (and systems and paperwork and taxes etc). There are lessons in this
OpenAI seems very confused about what its real business is. They’re racing to become the next Google so fast they’ve failed to notice that Google is an incredibly confused and confusing company
I don’t think AGI and doomsday warnings are deliberate distractions from current and near-term problems with AI (police and military use are my top two, part of a nexus of violence and surveillance) so much as too many people don’t see those things as problems at all
It's good for me professionally because I'm an AI reporter but I think it's bad for the technology industry and especially the technology consumer that all tech and tech business news is now AI news
I wish I could have been in the meeting where someone pitched OpenAI on calling data centers "compute campuses." People actually like data! Nobody inherently likes compute! Compute is a problem. Data is a solution. Data is a friendly android. Compute is something 1 in 100 people understand.
One thing I don't like about Meta's AI glasses (besides their target market being entitled perverts) is that there's no real room for anyone else to develop for the hardware. There are apps I can *imagine* being useful for that form factor but we'll never see them unless Meta gets something from it
I just accidentally scooped Google on the release of its new Gemini 4 Argon model by wandering into Vals AI's leaderboard exactly at 1PM PT
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