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How machines are reshaping us

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The Intelligence Illusion

AI systems have become extraordinarily good at producing outputs that look like thinking. This has led us to confuse the performance of intelligence with intelligence itself — a confusion with real consequences.

Marcus WebbMarch 14, 2026

Technology

The Social Graph Is Dead

Facebook built its empire on a single idea: that mapping human relationships would be the most valuable thing in the history of commerce. The idea was right. The map was wrong.

Marcus WebbMarch 3, 202611 min

Technology

Five Signals That AI Is Already Disrupting White-Collar Work

The anecdotal evidence is becoming data. The indicators that the AI jobs disruption is accelerating — and what they suggest about the next eighteen months.

Tyler HuangFebruary 28, 202611 min

Technology

The AI Jobs Question

Prediction markets are pricing a 40 percent chance of significant labor displacement by 2028. The economists who study this most carefully are more divided than either camp admits.

Daniel Osei-KwameFebruary 28, 202614 min

Technology

The Attention Merchants, Redux

TikTok taught us what the attention economy really is. Now that its fate is uncertain, we have to decide what we actually want from the platforms that shape our minds.

Selin ÇelikJanuary 15, 202611 min