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🔮Alternative AI futures, algorithmic reparations, and the (!) AI ‘killer app’
PLUS: Next week's big announcement.
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🎧 AI needs a new philosophy of product development.
Listen now | Let’s put meaning making at the center, shall we?
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If the medium is the message, what is the message of AI?
You’re a unique li’l meat-bag who can imagine their own future — don’t let AI take that away from you!
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June 2024

The consequences of Google’s AI Overview.
PLUS: The question I can’t stop thinking about.
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👀 Can AI actually help you grieve?
An interview with Caitlin Dewey, author of Links I would Gchat You If We Were Friends
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What happens online when we die?
Listen now | An interview with Tamara Kneese, author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
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An AI model will take your place when you die
…and it will misrepresent your personality to your friends and family. Enjoy!
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May 2024

🎧 Unfollow your friends!
An interview with Louis Barclay, creator of Unfollow Everything.
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This would reshape the internet as we know it.
PLUS: AI benchmarks, conflating wrongs & harms, and the online brain.
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Transcend your meat prison.
Come, human. Ensconce yourself in the fine swaddling robes of rational perfectionism
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April 2024

This would be terrible for marginalized groups and scientific research.
PLUS: My favorite essays and papers from the week.
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How generative AI will alter grieving and loss.
Let’s co-create an essay, shall we?
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