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November 2024

A Conversation with Ziba Scott on Digital Community, Games, and Connection
A conversation with Ziba Scott about building Kind Words, a digital space where real people share anonymous letters of encouragement, and what happens…
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Protecting Us, Harming Them: Content Moderation's Mental Health Crisis
Every time you scroll through social media, browse YouTube, or participate in online communities, you're benefiting from the invisible labor of content…
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Governing Tech
The internet may seem like a vast, ungoverned space, but powerful systems of control shape our online experiences. From payment processors to content…
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October 2024

Matthew S. Burns on AI, Empathy, and the Making of Eliza
Before ChatGPT and the AI boom, Eliza asked what would happen if we automated therapy. In this interview, creator Matthew S. Burns reflects on writing…
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Circuits & Synapses
The self titled article.
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AI in OS: A Predictive Text
T9 In a Rolling Stone article from April of this year, Billie Eilish lamented not learning to type on a keyboard as a kid: "I wasn’t that generation…
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Scrolling Through Shadows: AI's Influence on Our Online Experience
The dead internet theory hypothesizes that sometime around 2016-2018, genuine human activity on the internet dropped dramatically.
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AI Therapists and Programs of Projection
A few years ago, I started hearing of individuals within and outside of therapy turning to AI when they needed someone to talk with.
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September 2024

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