Extremely Online
The dark side of the LinkedIn AI action figure trend
Discover the true environmental impact of the craze that has gripped social media (and forgive us for taking part in it).
Tech culture
Tech culture
How will "speciesist" humans treat robots in future? Just ask animals...
Homo sapiens has been beastly to the natural world, so machines should probably brace for a similar kind of relationship with their creators.
Tech culture
Bumble founder: Online dating makes people feel "judged, insecure and rejected"
"We have been leaning on algorithms but haven't paused to say: 'What are these products doing to people?'"
Persuasive Technologies
Big ideas for 2025: The Intention Economy
Preparing for a future in which machines watch our every move - then sell predictions about our future behaviour to the data-industrial complex.
GenAI
AI "superstar effect" warning: LLMs pose risk of "narrowing global knowledge"
The conformist tastes of large language models are having a globally homogenising effect.