Many years ago, I went to the Whitney with my younger son. It was the Whitney Biennial, and it was an exhibit of the current state of… Continue reading on Medium »

I’ve been in the film industry a long time, and I’m one of the founding trustees of Producers Guild East. I make a real effort to see at least some of the films that matter each year in theaters. So last week I ventured out not once, but twice — first to the super-buzzy and extraordinary Gen

Two of the internet’s core institutions made decisions about AI this spring. And interestingly, they went in totally opposite directions… Continue reading on Medium »

A long time ago, when I was graduating high school, I convinced the vice principal of my school in Maine that I shouldn’t have to spend my… Continue reading on Medium »

When people find they’ve used a fact or quote that AI hallucinated, the rational question is, shouldn’t they have been more careful? More… Continue reading on Medium »

Book publishing, it turns out, is a lot like democracy. Continue reading on Medium »

There may be no better example of the strange new collision between nostalgia, technology, and synthetic reality than ABBA’s AI show. Continue reading on Medium »

We’ve spent the last decade arguing about misinformation. Platforms built moderation systems. Brands worried about adjacency. Policymakers… Continue reading on Medium »

Anil Seth is one of the world’s leading neuroscientists studying consciousness and has spent three decades working on one of the hardest… Continue reading on Medium »

All right, let’s just jump right in. You know that feeling you get online these days? Kind of like you’re in a funhouse mirror where… Continue reading on Medium »