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I Went to See What's Happened to the Home of the TED Talk. It Was a Little Terrifying.

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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.


The World's Most Evil Couple Exposed the Rot at the Heart of the Met Gala

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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.


A Conservative Studio em /em Has Returned With an Adaptation of em Animal Farm /em . It's Not What You Think.

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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.


Elon Musk Says He's Suing OpenAI Because They Abandoned Their Mission. I Think His Real Reason Is Much More Embarrassing.

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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.


I've Been Having the Time of My Life Sexting. But I Have a Shameful Secret About Who It's With.

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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.


My Partner Just Got Laid Off From His Job of 12 Years. What He's Doing Now Boggles the Mind.

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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.


I Used to Love Turning to My Dad for Advice. Guess Who He Wants Me to Ask Now.

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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?


Our Son Just Discovered a Rude Hand Gesture. My Husband Is Thoroughly Amused. I Am Not.

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My Husband Is Thoroughly Amused. After he spends time with his dad, we're back at square one. Have a question for Care and Feeding? My 5-year-old son, "Jasper," has recently discovered flipping the bird. He loves to do it at every opportunity, which has made for some rather embarrassing situations, to put it mildly.


Our Greatest Living Biographer Is Back With His First Single-Subject Book in Decades. It's Enthralling.

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Richard Holmes, our greatest living biographer, is back with an enthralling chronicle of the poet. 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.


I've Lived Long Enough to Hear an A.I.-Generated Bon Jovi Song in Olympic Ice Dancing

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That move may have warded off the lawyers, but it didn't slide past Olympic viewers. Disgusted reactions ensued immediately after Mrázková and Mrázek took the ice and NBC's announcers pointed out that, while half of their choreography was set to AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," the other half had been soundtracked by A.I. The ISU's own documentation identifies the track as something called "One Two," created by an A.I. prompted to come up with something resembling "90s style Bon Jovi."