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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The College Essay Is Dead
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia.
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Wikimedia; The Atlantic We’re Witnessing the Birth of a New Artistic Medium
Expect AI art to go the way of Warhol.
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Corey Olsen / The Atlantic Of God and Machines
The future of artificial intelligence is neither utopian nor dystopian—it’s something much more interesting.
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Bettmann / Getty Google’s AI Is Something Even Stranger Than Conscious
Machine sentience is overrated.
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Chris Young / The Canadian Press / AP When the Rage Came for Me
As a writer, I’ve explored political rage at a distance. The anti-vax trucker convoy brought it up close and personal.
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The Atlantic How Ivy League Elites Turned Against Democracy
Some of the best-educated people in the country have overseen the destruction of their institutions.
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Mark Pernice America’s Gambling Addiction Is Metastasizing
When life feels this precarious, it’s only natural to roll the dice on just about everything.
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Ryan Remiorz / The Canadian Press via AP The Woke Will Always Break Your Heart
Canadian progressives have to decide whether they care more about Justin Trudeau’s policy achievements or his offensive style.
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Rami Niemi Pregnancy Suits and the Single Guy
In Japan, men are taking parenting classes to become more marriageable.
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Ross MacDonald Home Economics: The Link Between Work-Life Balance and Income Equality
The central conflict of domestic life right now isn't men versus women or mothers versus fathers; it's the family against money.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to our souls and our society.
