Chatbots and the Problems of Life
I don’t like this collapse of trust; I don’t like being in a technological arms race with my students.
AI as Self-Erasure
Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.
When the Mind’s Eye Is Blind
Posted on June 4, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: Photograph by Roman Kraft via Unsplash.
I have a very hard time believing that most people can see things.
Creativity in the Age of Crush
Posted on May 30, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: YouTube screenshots from Apple’s “Crush” ad [left] and Samsung’s “Uncrush” ad [right].
Through the Rent, Eternity Enters
Posted on May 22, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; clockwise from top: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Richard Wilbur, Osip Mandelstam, George Washington Carver, Norman MacCaig, Joy Harjo.
You read a poem and it awakens you to something that you already knew.
How to Survive and Thrive in the AI Apocalypse
Posted on May 14, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock photos.
The ironic result of the triumph of the machine may be the creation of an ecosystem in which supra-rational gnostic appeals flourish.
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