Reddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?
Moderators on Reddit have shut down their forums in protest of a new policy that charges users for access to the site’s API. The revolt has put Kevin in child care-wisdom-withdrawal (RIP r/daddit) — a...
16 Juni 20231h 19min
Apple’s Face Computer + Crypto Chaos + How Teens Really Feel About Social Media
Apple kicked off the week with the announcement of a mixed-reality headset: the Apple Vision Pro. Putting a computer on your face may seem weird AF, but if there’s one company that knows how to make n...
9 Juni 20231h 9min
A.I.'s Inner Conflict + Nvidia Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club + Hard Questions
A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever...
2 Juni 20231h 5min
The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks
The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, says social media poses a “profound risk of harm” to young people. Why do some in the tech industry disagree?Then, Ajeya Cotra, an A.I. researcher, on how A...
26 Maj 20231h 13min
Mr. Altman Goes to Washington + Casey Goes on This American Life
In a congressional hearing this week, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared to be on the same page as lawmakers: It’s time to regulate A.I. But like so many other proposals to regulate tech, ...
19 Maj 20231h 12min
Google’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt
At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that generates slides. Is Google pulling ahead in the A.I. ar...
12 Maj 20231h 9min
Bluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocalypse + Hard Questions
The Twitter look-alike Bluesky, started by the former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, is doing the impossible: making social media fun again.Then, A.I. is coming for jobs but not in the way you t...
5 Maj 202356min
Deepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era
A song featuring A.I.-generated versions of Drake and the Weeknd went viral — before being taken down by streaming services. Is censorship of A.I.-generated songs the way forward? Or can singers benef...
28 Apr 20231h 1min
