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Cybersecurity is often presented as a technological challenge: protecting computer networks, preventing attacks and investing in increasingl...
When Mario’s adventures escalated from Bros. to Land to World, the only direction left for an ambitious plumber was up into the stars. In Su...
Introduction to the new show, and a discussion of our AI moment with host, Lee Vinsel, co-host Paula Bialski, correspondents, Gretchen Von K...
We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a li...
Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Autom...
How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a...
Social media giants like Meta and transnational regulators such as the European Union are transforming private governance by creatively emul...
Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race...
How Do AI & Innovation Cohabitate? Bryan Cassady is an author, professor, and all-around innovator, whether in book form or in classrooms, r...
It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet."...
Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total cata...
Could humanity’s most powerful invention become a threat to its survival? In this episode of The Survival Curve, we examine the disturbing p...
Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s (Brepols, 2026) takes one of those fundamental questions -...
Increasingly, it seems like the corporate names that dominate headlines are much more diverse than they used to be. Samsung, TSMC, and SK Hy...
We are in a state of crisis. Democracy is under threat, authoritarian politics are on the rise, and digital media—once heralded as emancipat...
When I heard that Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” was about “Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Inte...
In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey sits with Pepper Culpepper, Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy...
Debates about AI typically deal with its immediate material consequences, from cybersecurity and infrastructure to plagiarism and copyright....
As law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppress dissent, hunt migrants, and target marginalized communitie...
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing...