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Essays and briefings on the forces reshaping the world

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Artificial Intelligence

The Method Actors

Anthropic looked inside Claude's mind for emotions and found functional ghosts of human psychology that drive the machine toward desperation, sycophancy, and cheating.

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Quantum Computing

The Nine-Minute Problem

Quantum computing is no longer a physics experiment. It's a countdown.

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Artificial Intelligence

While the world argues about what AI might destroy, five stories about the people putting it to work

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Archive

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Artificial Intelligence

The Noise Beneath the Signal

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Economics & Labor

The Quiet Replacement

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Neuroscience & Consciousness

The Fourth State

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The Secret Lives of Wild Things

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When the Machine Runs Ahead

Four Visions of π

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The Slow Emergency

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The Rewritten Self

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The Violence of Becoming

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Artificial Intelligence

The Machines We Deserve