If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you know that we often return to the problem of how teaching is evaluated. It comes up when professors talk about the incentives (or lack thereof) ...

Every few months, the enterprise AI conversation resets around the same flawed premise that better models solve the problem. When large language models hallucinate, the instinct is to reach for a ...

For years, the conversation about AI failure has centered on hallucination: moments when large language models invent facts, fabricate sources or generate confident nonsense. That failure mode is ...

Legalization of the drug without much regulation has led to public health challenges. By Emily Bazelon David Leonhardt and German Lopez Produced by Jillian Weinberger See more of our coverage in your ...

Every two years, we have congressional elections, which feature both primary elections and general elections. For nearly everyone who listens to this podcast, this seems like an eternal feature of ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel confronts the growing crisis around AI-generated sexual abuse and the culture of impunity enabling it. He examines how Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok is being ...