AI & Technology
5 stories
Collected Irritations
A reader once wished my essays were collected in one book so she could hate everything in one place. Her wish is my command.
Shadows fall and I try
Grief tech, Black Mirror bots, and memories of Nanay: she murdered the English language but was Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul rolled into one.
I am therefore AI: Personhood probed in Singapore Art Museum show
Imagine a blackish mirror reflecting a sky-net of electric sheep playing an imitation game soundtracked by Alphaville’s Forever Young.
Who’s afraid of big, bad artificial intelligence?
Talking nicely to the chatbots in case they remember us later, and finding that the scariest thing online is still the people doing the typing.
‘Black Mirror,’ mirror on the wall
Charlie Brooker returns with the year’s scariest monster already in your pocket: selfies, the Cloud, and technology gone clumsily, inadvertently evil.