Words have a kind of magical quality to them. Since I was a child, I've been enthralled by the magical tug of words on a page; all the humanity and soul that dashes of ink can produce and inspire. 

I began writing at a young age, and I never stopped. 

I began my professional writing career in high school and have been working as a journalist ever since. I am endlessly fascinated by the world of AI, all the implications of our ever-more-encompassing digital world, and the neurological, psychological and scientific nuances to the idea of synthetic "intelligence."

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Id, Ego & A.I.

When I told “Ash,” an A.I. therapist, that one of my best friends had just moved to Boston, it spit out something that, to my surprise, sort of had an impact on my life. Ash acknowledged the loss, and asked whether we had tried to keep in touch over the phone. I admitted that we could do a better job. And while it felt strange taking advice from a chatbot—and while I was fully planning on doing this anyway—I sent my friend a text the next day. In the end, the suggestion acted as a timely reminde...
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Amazon’s A.G.I. Prime

Dr. Danielle Perszyk, a cognitive scientist at Amazon’s AGI Labs, can’t help but feel anxious every time she opens her computer, where she is greeted by all the usual pop-up nonsense: email alerts, Slack messages, social media updates, “productivity” app notifications. Of course, her frustration with these distractions was hardly evident in the 45 minutes we spent chatting about her research. But it’s certainly one of the factors driving her interest in A.I. “I think that part of the solution is...
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The A.I. Moratorium War Is Just Beginning…

Last week, after a tumultuous few days, a provision in Trump’s sprawling, 900-page Big Beautiful Bill Act barring states from regulating A.I. for the next five to 10 years was stripped out. The yanking of the so-called A.I. moratorium was, to put it mildly, a shocking twist—not least because its removal was supported by 99 senators. Adam Thierer, the think tank analyst who first proposed a federal moratorium on state A.I. laws, called the volte-face a “major turning point in U.S. technology poli...