The dark side of a super app like WeChat
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The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on
Last year, over Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, Kiran Rabheru eagerly joined a call with officials from…
Alex Hanna left Google to try to save AI’s future
“I am quitting because I’m tired,” Alex Hanna wrote on February 2, her last day…
The Download: the aging/disease debate, and WeChat’s dark side
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Why AI shouldn’t be making life-and-death decisions
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Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?
My parents don’t know that I spoke to them last night. At first, they sounded…
The Download: bots for the brokenhearted, and AI for life and death decisions
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Inside effective altruism, where the far future counts a lot more more the present
Oregon 6th Congressional District candidate Carrick Flynn seemed to drop out of the sky. With…
The Download: WeChat censorship, and effective altruism
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WeChat users are begging Tencent to give their accounts back after talking about a Beijing protest
On Weibo, the popular Chinese social media platform, hundreds of desperate users were writing “confession…