
Dumbing Down the Country
Ed tech companies claim that artificial intelligence can work educational miracles in our schools. What do teachers think?

Mad Hatters, Cheshire Cats, and Hallucinations
Why do large language models fabricate information?

A Manifesto for the Smiley Face Shoggoth
Most of us are comfortable with the current lifeforms on the planet. Are we delusional zombies?

Die with a Hammer in my Hand
How can you test for creativity? It’s a contradiction in terms.

John Frum America: “You want Jeep?”
AI religion faces the possibility that it will change doctrine each time it’s queried.



A Million Points of Mendacity
ChatGPT is a powerful tool for injecting lies into our political discourse.

The Attention of a Goldfish
Big Tech is changing how all of us think, even changing the structure of the brain.

The War Against Human Creativity
GPT-3 may also mark the death of human painting and drawing.

A Shotgun Blast of Tribalization
If healthy relationships are nourishing meals, then social media is cotton candy—a sweet, vanishing sugar rush.

Eye to Eye
We need to bring artificial intelligence out of the corporate shadows and into the light.


Brain Training
The skill you practice online does not provably transfer to a skill in life.

Get Ready Man
Technological advancement may be inevitable, but it is not inevitably good for all of us.


Elon Musk Takes a Piggy to Market
Elon Musk put a chip in a pig’s brain to learn what a pig thinks about.

Church of the Almighty Algorithm
Why do serious-minded computer scientists use the language of religious mysticism?

Class No-Action Lawsuits
Online and face-to-face classes are not the same except in one sense: the tuition for both remains the same.

Viral Education
Online education is, at best, a parachute until teachers and students can return to the classroom.