What’s mattered most amid Trump’s chaos so far
So as I just said, a lot has happened in the last almost-eight weeks. But what, so far, is a seismic change, and what could still be undone? I really appreciated this analysis from Vox senior correspondent Andrew Prokop, evaluating, beyond the day-to-day headlines, where Trump has had the most impact.
🎧 Good Robot #1: The Magic Intelligence in the Sky
Why are so many people afraid of superintelligent AI? And why, when they talk about it, do they keep bringing up a thought experiment about it turning everything into paper clips? For the first episode of Good Robot, our Unexplainable podcast’s series on artificial intelligence, my colleagues Julia Longoria and Kelsey Piper dive deep into the rationalist community and explain why many think we should be leery of startups that are trying to…well, “build God” isn’t the right way to describe it, but it isn’t exactly the wrong way either.
AI is coming for the laptop class
But it’s possible I — and maybe you too, if you do the kind of job that consists mostly of typing on a computer and can be done from anywhere — have something a lot more immediate to fear than the prospect that AI will turn us into paper clips. It’s that artificial intelligence will turn itself into, well, us. Vox senior correspondent Dylan Matthews explains why AI is a lot better at knowledge work (researching and writing) than it is at the more physical tasks we might dream of automating (folding laundry) — and what this could mean for “laptop jobs” and the entire economy.
A Walz to remember
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz sat down with Today Explained’s Sean Rameswaram at SXSW last weekend for an insightful (and often funny) conversation about the 2024 election, what went wrong for the Harris-Walz ticket, and where Democrats go from here.
I tried to find my personal style and all I got was this existential crisis
As I’ve browsed major retailers and resellers, trying to figure out what to put on my body this spring, I have been close to letting out a primal scream: Please, for the love of god, will someone just tell me what to wear?! So I am the ideal target audience for senior correspondent Constance Grady’s investigation into how the internet became so obsessed with the concept of developing a “personal style,” and what that means for those of us who might not have an innate fashion sense.
