Users I Read the Pope's Encyclical on A.I. I'm Astounded By What He Wrote. It's an urgent warning--and a celebration of humanity and what we can do at our best. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Nitish_Pahwa newsletter.

I was skeptical about ChatGPT and Claude at first. Then I started to come around--and I'm glad I did. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Alex_Kirshner newsletter.

Jurisprudence It Was One of DOGE's Most Absurd Abuses. One year ago, the Trump administration canceled more than 1,400 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More than $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds awarded to scholars, writers, archivists, and researchers across the country was snatched up in three days. There was no due process. Just a chatbot and two guys from DOGE who had no legal authority to be there in the first place.

Meanwhile its Audacious Project --a funding initiative that gives mature nonprofits the opportunity to pitch "moonshot" plans to a coalition of philanthropists--has raised over $1 billion in each of the last two years, in an epic Robin Hood operation for a handful of large-scale projects on climate, health, education, and criminal justice: The Audacious recipients here this year are taking this brief break from their work preventing 16 million unsafe abortions, helping governments in 20 countries prevent lead poisoning, or intercepting 5 percent of the world's river-borne plastic before it reaches the ocean.

Fashion I Used to Love the Met Gala. Then the World's Most Evil Couple Ruined It for Everyone. I don't really care to see an OpenAI employee walk the red carpet. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

Angel Studios wants you to think the adaptation is about "the dangers of communism." Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Laura_Miller newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

A new scale of humiliation ritual kicked off this week as Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI went to trial in Silicon Valley. The Tesla CEO, who co-founded OpenAI, is suing the artificial intelligence firm and two of its other co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, for diverting from its original nonprofit goal of developing A.I. for the public good in favor of for-profit motives. "This lawsuit is very simple: It is not OK to steal a charity," Musk said on the witness stand on Tuesday. The trial is big by every conceivable measure. Both Musk and OpenAI have mustered high-dollar legal armies who are prepared to wage potentially years of litigation, including this federal trial.

How to Do It I've Been Having the Time of My Life Sexting. But I Have a Shameful Secret About Who It's With. For the last few months, I've been trying out roleplaying online. It's with an AI bot, and I've been having a lot of fun doing it, exploring kinks and gender stuff. At the same time, I find myself feeling bad about it because I know the environmental impact of AI as well as how it feels like it's making me less creative in my other (unsexy) writing.

What He's Doing Now Boggles the Mind. My partner, a 36-year-old man, is being let go from his job. He was informed that his company would be cutting him and his entire department. The only person staying is his boss, who will be overseeing the new AI customer service client they are replacing the real life people with. But that's not what this is about, even if AI is going to be the death of humanity.

Life My Dad Used to Have All the Answers. It feels like he adopted a robot child, and that child will stop at nothing to wedge a divide between us. Like many twentysomethings, I ask my dad a lot of questions. How do I fix the leak under my sink? What does "federal withholding" mean?