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When the Algorithm Becomes Your Dealer
You ask a chatbot for help. It recommends a way to hurt yourself. That’s what’s happening right now, according to an investigation by The Guardian and...
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Sovereignty Over the Algorithm
Indonesia just became the first Southeast Asian country to ban social media for children under 16. Starting March 28, platforms including YouTube, TikTok,...
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Before You Can Teach a Child Anything, They Need to Know You See Them
Something happens before learning. Before a child can absorb a lesson, follow a rule, or develop a skill, something else has to land first. Something wordless.
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Instagram Will Tell Your Parents When You Search for Suicide Content
Starting next week, if you’re a teenager on Instagram and you search repeatedly for terms related to self-harm or suicide, your parents will get a notification.
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Consciousness Hygiene and the Collapse of the Inner Room
Michael Pollan wakes up and comes back to himself. He sees the room, feels his body, thinks about the day ahead. Then he picks up his phone, and…
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The Stimulation Gap: What Happens When Nothing Is Ever Enough
You are lying on the couch on a Saturday afternoon with nothing to do. Not nothing in the productive sense, but nothing in the hollow sense.
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What Happens When AI Becomes the Better Parent?
The child is nine. She is lying on her bed with the door closed, holding a device that is not a phone but functions like one. She is…
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How Their Relationships Will Be Different: Growing Up With a Digital Archive of Yourself
You are sitting across from someone you have never met. A restaurant you chose because it felt neutral. A Tuesday evening. The kind of first date that is...
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Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
Meta just launched Name Tag, a facial recognition feature for its Ray-Ban smart glasses that lets you identify strangers in real life.
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Hanging Out in the Metaverse: Friendship When Bodies Are Optional
There is a moment, about forty minutes into a virtual hangout, when something shifts. You stop noticing the avatars. The slightly too-smooth faces,...