Articles from www.theatlantic.com

Articles from www.theatlantic.com

An interview with Ond&rcaron;ej Surý, a volunteer who maintains PHP and automates its patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities (www.theatlantic.com)
9 hours ago Interview

David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (www.theatlantic.com)
19 days ago

A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries (www.theatlantic.com)
23 days ago

Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-9-22 AI

China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-9-21 China AI

Sources: Zelenskyy asked Trump to secure Elon Musk's permission for the use of Starlink to guide drone strikes inside Russia, but Trump was noncommittal (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-7-31 Trump Russia Drone Elon Musk

As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-7-23 AI

Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-7-12

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-7-10 AI

FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-7-1 Trump

A look at JD Vance's “AI doctrine”, which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-22 AI

A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, without denying how impressive LLMs can be (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-4 AI

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-1 AI

A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-5-6 AI

How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-5-5 AI

A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-4-26

Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-4-12 AI

An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-3-30 Interview Twitter Goldman

How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models like GPT-2, leading to bad writing from many top AI models (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-3-2 U.S. AI Pentagon

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdos solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-2-28 AI Mathematics

Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-2-28 Mexico Instagram

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erd&odblac;s solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-2-27 AI Mathematics

Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-2-1 AI

Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-1-25 AI

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-1-10

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which scraped billions of web pages since 2013, including paywalled articles, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (www.theatlantic.com)
2025-11-4

Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos (www.theatlantic.com)
2025-9-11 AI YouTube

US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired (www.theatlantic.com)
2025-9-9 AI Job Market

Gemini referencing real-life moments when prompted to write a birthday letter shows how effectively Google is leveraging user data to craft personalized content (www.theatlantic.com)
2025-7-7 Google

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