This post was updated Oct. 31 at 8:11 p.m. In her latest short story, Tananarive Due invites readers on a macabre journey. Set during the Freedom Rides, Due’s new short story, “The Rider,” was ...

One of my personal mantras about writing is that writing is thinking. Writing involves both the expression and the exploration of an idea, where the writing itself changes the shape of the original ...

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move, says author Wendy Liu ...

Writing is a way to find out what you are thinking, whether you are trying to keep up with a journal or crafting an essay. Writing is thinking. Jotting down words, stringing them along into sentences, ...

Soon after ChatGPT was released, an artificial intelligence researcher from one of the big tech companies told me that I shouldn’t worry about how the technology would affect how students learn to ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words ...

Robotic hand holding pen on black background. Blending modern technology with timeless utility This fall is the first in nearly 20 years that I am not returning to the classroom. For most of my career ...

Source: V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger —a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") ...

In May, I was confronted with a robot version of my writer self. It was made, at my request, by a Silicon Valley startup called Writer, which specializes in building artificial-intelligence tools that ...