What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized

How companies are gaming the chatbot internet

Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing

The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.

Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity

A.I. can be a crutch that hurts our ability to think creatively.

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact

AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?

We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age | NOEMA

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare...

Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why

Researchers show scammers are using AI-manipulated footage of celebrity interviews to trick users into sharing their personal data.

AI ‘deadbots’ can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death

AI now makes it possible to communicate with the dead. But these digital avatars raise significant ethical questions about our relationship with mortality.

This game's 3D graphics are made entirely from text

Torizon Telecom takes retro game art to a new, literal level.

Takeshi Yoro, anatomist: ‘In Japan, we don’t see a robot as a threat: it’s simply another form of...

The 88-year-old Japanese physician swapped autopsies for popular science writing. In his best-seller, he argues that we have vast amounts of information but fail to understand one another because of...

AI super-apps are remaking China’s internet

Welcome to the agentic era

A Note From WIRED Leadership

The Great Zombification

“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student chatter.”

Opinion | The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future

There is a shared sense of precarity that lies beneath the envy and distrust.

Anthropic thinks sci-fi may have trained AI to act like a villain

The company believes fictional AI tropes may be echoing back through modern models

He’s So Random

A software engineer wanted to resist the usual algorithms. So he created his own—and transformed his whole existence.

AI psychosis: a mental health crisis for the 21st century

Chatbot dependence is reportedly affecting hundreds of thousands of people every week, leading to depression, breakdown and even death. As tech lawsuits stack up, what needs to be done to make AI...