McLuhan was seen as more of a carnival barker than a scholar, and people—clearly—didn’t heed his warnings about technology. I thought of McLuhan this June, when, in a conversation with Ross Douthat ...

I put Character AI to the test by turning my childhood imaginary friend into a chatbot and tried a few of the other character ...

In fact, as we covered recently, AI is even more emotionally intelligent than humans, beating us at our game. And it’s not ...