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Are you there Grok? It's me, Margaret
2+ hour ago (1598+ words) Grok, is this true? This question is asked thousands of times a day on Twitter as users fact-check, question, and prod various claims made on the social media platform by asking an AI bot to confirm or reject what another…...
Will we know when AI is taking our jobs?
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (524+ words) We're taking The Argument to San Francisco! On May 13, Kelsey Piper and Jerusalem Demsas are debating a question that feels unavoidable right now: Is AI actually changing how science gets done, or are we in the middle of a very…...
AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1899+ words) We're taking The Argument to San Francisco! On May 13, Kelsey Piper and I are debating a question that feels unavoidable right now: Is AI actually changing how science gets done, or are we in the middle of a very expensive…...
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2+ week, 1+ day ago (10+ words) I can never talk to an AI anonymously again'The Argument...
AI can do work. Can it do a job?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1812+ words) We're hiring a Senior Editor to join our team. Are you a liberal? Do you love to argue? Do you read social science research for fun? Apply! To explain her pivot into the beverage industry, journalist Arielle Pardes recently told…...
Anthropic is somehow both too dangerous to allow and essential to national security
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1544+ words) Anthropic was already retraining Claude Gov to agree to tasks that it usually refuses to do, like handle classified information, but killer autonomous robots and mass domestic surveillance were lines in the sand. "Anthropic is committed to using frontier AI…...
Anthropic probably shouldn't be doing this, but they're doing it well
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (276+ words) We " by which I mean society as a whole, but also the teams at AI companies trying to design the AIs " want a bunch of impossible, contradictory things from their AIs. Companies don't want their agents to be humorless scolds…...
Why women should be tech-optimists
7+ mon, 4+ day ago (1042+ words) An awkward stylized fact about support for new technology is that in poll after poll, women tend to sound a bit like luddites. In The Argument's new poll, for instance, we asked respondents whether their city or town should allow…...