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Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays
Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future

‘It’s not progress, and we can stop it’: journalist Karen Hao on big tech, protest and the preventable AI future
The US reporter and bestselling author was one of the first journalists to get inside OpenAI – and was alarmed at what she found. Six years on, she tells Carole Cadwalladr, a coalition of resistance is growing to oppose the new Silicon Valley ascendancy

An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune’s web traffic in the second half of 2025. Most are written by Nick Lichtenberg.
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewi…

Has technological innovation lost the plot? An interview with AI ethicist Dr. Shannon Vallor | Chicago Policy Review
Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also appointed in Philosophy. Professor Vallor’s research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics, and data science, reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. She is […]

Amelia Wattenberger
I create things on the web, explore novel interfaces, turn data into meaning, and empower devs with AI.
On the Death of Amazon’s Writing Culture
How AI has turned what was once a superpower into a liability.

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

The scent of Musk: Power, charisma and paranoia in Silicon Valley
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The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI’s Phantom Journalists By Tony Eastin and Sandeep Abraham, CAMS
Inside the Economy of AI Spammers Getting Rich By Exploiting Disasters and Misery
How AI spammers monetized the LA fires and other natural disasters.

What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality