Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Game Plan for the AI Boom
Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots.
Illustration by The Atlantic Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster
The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.
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The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
Landon Speers for The Atlantic What Anthropic’s Clash With the Pentagon Is Really About
Who will take responsibility for the technology?
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu / Getty. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic A Dire Warning From the Tech World
Dean Ball, Trump’s former AI adviser, says that the targeting of Anthropic is just one piece of a much larger political breakdown.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Thomas Fuller / SOPA Images / Getty; en Golbeck / SOPA Images / Getty. What Happens to Anthropic Now?
The Trump administration is severing all ties with the “woke” AI firm.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Artem Onoprienko / Getty. The Edge of Mathematics
Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI.
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