Ian Bogost

An Anthropic researcher quit his job because he believes AI will destroy humanity. His story is going viral because so many others want to believe too.

The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American culture—and ambition.

Except it’s a Ferrari

The sound of a cosmic howl

The commencement speech is a ritual act, not an expressive one.

A ransomware attack took down a popular university-course-management software right in the middle of finals.

Fifteen years after Steve Jobs’s death, the company is a successful, if unexciting, powerhouse.

A few glowing roadside numerals set the national mood.

Inventing a market is less important than perfecting one.

Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can.

Grown-ups killed it.

A smartwatch isn’t capable of doing that much harm. It can also do a lot of good.

Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.

The age of travel flexibility is over.

Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end.

The first step to recovery is acceptance of this fact.

People are sneaking answers from AI, and who can blame them?

Buying goods from international sellers has been cheap and easy—until now.

Members of the class of 2026 have been using ChatGPT since they were freshmen.

For decades, tech companies have promised that AI will make our computers easier to use. That hasn’t happened yet.