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Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again

Alexandra Petri

August 4, 2026

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The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious

July 12, 2026

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China Is Abusing AI

Michael Schuman

July 7, 2026

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Why AI Is Incorrigibly Didactic

June 15, 2026

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The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

May 29, 2026

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College Should Be Way More Fun

Michael A. Elliott

May 23, 2026

John Belushi delves into the Turn of the Screw

Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account

May 2, 2026

A fake ID made by AI

Did a Human Write This?

May 1, 2026

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AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills

April 16, 2026

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The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral

April 6, 2026

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Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI

April 2, 2026

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If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now

March 31, 2026

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A Game Plan for the AI Boom

March 30, 2026

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How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times

March 25, 2026

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The First AI Crisis Is Psychological

March 22, 2026

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Friendship, on Demand

March 18, 2026

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The Myspace Dilemma Facing ChatGPT

March 18, 2026

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The Human Skill That Eludes AI

March 17, 2026

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I Believe California Has a Right to Exist

March 9, 2026

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Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’

March 5, 2026

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What Do the People Building AI Believe?

February 27, 2026

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The Edge of Mathematics

February 24, 2026

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The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now

February 20, 2026

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Time-Travel Thursdays

Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

February 19, 2026

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AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm

February 17, 2026

Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT

Matteo Wong and Nicholas Florko

February 13, 2026

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The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life

February 3, 2026

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Teenagers Are Pushing Himmler’s Favorite Myth

January 23, 2026

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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

January 22, 2026

My Students Write Their Papers Backwards

January 17, 2026

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The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men

January 17, 2026

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Move Over, ChatGPT

January 14, 2026

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@Grok, Did Venezuela ‘Deserve It’?

Gary Marcus and Damon Beres

January 5, 2026

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The People Who Marry Chatbots

January 2, 2026

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Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence

December 26, 2025

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Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’

Thomas Chatterton Williams

December 14, 2025

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