“Growing up, we knew our neighbors. We spent evenings playing in the street or down at the local park. We knew the rules. Of course, knowing the rules and following them are not…

“A hundred years of cautionary tales have taught us apparently very little. We continue to build devices that could bring about the end of our civilization, our species, and indeed our planet itself.…

“As someone who grew up being forced to read Shakespeare in dusty school editions, I never imagined I’d one day be collaborating with an algorithm to forge Elizabethan verse. The whole exercise felt…

“As a recreation therapist with a growing familiarity with AI, I initially dismissed its ability to understand leisure—that quintessentially human space between obligations. Yet after witnessing an algorithm generate hundreds of ‘weird recreational…

“The C-word has been around for centuries. The Oxford English Dictionary traces it back to 13th-century London, where you could find ‘Gropecunte Lane,’ a street name, whose modern spelling drops the extraneous e,…