The Silicon-Tongued Devil
ChatGPT feeds on language, outputting texts that reinforce the basic assumptions of our culture. The rise of AI forces the Left to take a hard look at the politics of language and the linguistics of Noam Chomsky.
5 Articles by: Leif Weatherby
Leif Weatherby is an associate professor of German at New York University and the author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism Between Leibniz and Marx.
OpenAI: Metaphysics in the C-Suite
The chaos surrounding Sam Altman and OpenAI reveals just how much of tech can be driven by fantasy.
Billionaires Are the Real Existential Risk
We have seen calls to consider whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist. But the real question is whether our species can survive the billionaire.
ChatGPT Is an Ideology Machine
Debates about the new AI focus on “intelligence.” But something more interesting is going on: AI is a culture machine.
Posting Left and Right
Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies forces us to reconsider left media strategy in the age of Trump.