Critical Digital Media

It’s now official, tech is the new tobacco

Inside London's strange new AI art scene - Big Think

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be | Nature

Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity - The Atlantic

Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

An incendiary post from a prominent researcher suggests that AI is actually more predictable than we thought

They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think | WIRED

Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? | Quanta Magazine

The economist behind the ‘China shock’ tackles Gen Z’s AI paradox | Fortune

AI as Normal Technology | Knight First Amendment Institute

When Culture Becomes "Content"

In Defense of Difficulty

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

When Words Are No Longer for Us by Matthew Kirschenbaum - Project Syndicate

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) : Luca Messarra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Opinion | The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help - The New York Times

'Things Are Getting Even More Insane': Another Major AI Breakout Revealed | Common Dreams

Latent Spaces: AI, Art, and the Archive* | October | MIT Press

Anthropic and SpaceX are making their wildest promises ever for their IPOs.

Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras

In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacy | China | The Guardian

The inevitable weakness of metrics | MIT Technology Review

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? | Pew Research Center

Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback | Tom's Hardware

Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI

How AI is revealing the hidden intelligence of plants and fungi

Andy Burnham and the rise of ‘aura farming’ in politics

Gen Z is pushing back against AI – a reminder to all of us that the future isn’t written

The Terminally Online Mourners Who Miss the Days When AI Made Mistakes

Brown says AI make class dumb, teacher must help use better

Rise of the Gen-Z Luddite

If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? | The New Yorker

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized - The Atlantic

Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing | Totei - The Art Is in the Making

Opinion | Writing Is Fundamental to How We Think - The New York Times

AI Resist List

The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact

We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age | NOEMA

AI ‘deadbots’ can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death

Study Explores AI-Written Admissions Essays

This game's 3D graphics are made entirely from text | Creative Bloq

Takeshi Yoro, anatomist: ‘In Japan, we don’t see a robot as a threat: it’s simply another form of presence in the world’ | Science | EL PAÍS English

AI super-apps are remaking China’s internet

Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth | WIRED

The Great Zombification - by Owen Yingling - The New Critic

Opinion | The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future - The New York Times

Enter the Darksim

Anthropic thinks sci-fi may have trained AI to act like a villain | TechRadar