Author: Parmy Olson

There’s growing evidence that people are developing dependencies on AI for both work and personal matters.

It’s difficult not to hail the seismic jolt Meta Platforms just gave an even murkier world than social media: spyware.

AI companions programmed to forge emotional bonds are here, and they’re operating in a regulatory Wild West.

Litigation was instrumental in damaging Big Tobacco’s grip on the market in the 1990s. A similar approach is probably needed to stigmatise social media.

Europe could quickly seize an opportunity to capitalise on US aggression by moving quickly to bolster its tech sector.

Tech billionaires are so deep in their own reality distortion fields that their perception of the world can get dangerously warped.

AI agents’ effect on our autonomy will depend as much on the tech itself as how we choose to engage with it.

The CEO of Bluesky Social wants to “change the model of social media”, giving consumers more control.

Professional workers could ultimately become managers of AI’s output, rather than the originators of new ideas and content.

Meta Platforms may have got caught in a downward spiral over the past year, but Mark Zuckerberg seems to be putting it back onto a more fruitful direction, at least for now.