In early 2025 I was interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he explained why, despite the company’s repeated acknowledgments that AI could yield catastrophic results,…
Author: Steven Levy
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
I spent the waning days of summer grinding away at columns and working on a feature. But I missed a chance at a striking change…
AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
Don’t be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. When…
Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly’s yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been create more value than you capture. It’s no surprise…
4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup
At first, the team envisions that those ideas will be codeveloped with humans, but their goal is deeply automating the process. If it works out,…
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
For 6 months, my husband convinced everyone that I had stolen millions from the company I built, including our own daughter. As I sat in…
Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI
Earlier this month I attended Vivatech, a huge tech conference in Paris. One fear dominated the discussions: the prospect of ending up stuck using American…
Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
You went down the coding agent rabbit hole last November along with everyone else? It was an intense time for the nerds. I spent a…
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and…
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
The Catholic ethicists even had a say in Anthropic’s recent update to Claude’s constitution, which sets the behavioral parameters for the company’s AI model. Olah…