Faith and governance in the age of thinking machines
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/big-tech/2026/05/faith-and-governance-in-the-age-of-thinking-machines
Alys Key:
This contributes to another reason why we are getting these missives from on high about AI. It’s a nebulous reason, a public mood, best expressed by a Silicon Valley meme about the “permanent underclass”. Half-joking, half-serious, this term describes the idea that AI brings about an end to social mobility by replacing all human labor, and that there are only a few years left in which to accumulate wealth before that happens. Those AI shareholders will be fine. For the rest of us, it’s anyone’s guess.
This is an extreme scenario, but taps into a feeling that we might get left behind. More than generalized anxiety about inequality, this is a fear that the new wave of wealth and superintelligence will end everything about life as we know it. It is a feeling intermingled with disappointment over stagnant wages, the cost of living, the state of politics, the environmental crisis, the slow loss of newspapers/Saturday jobs/bank branches/whatever it was that made life feel real to you.
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/big-tech/2026/05/faith-and-governance-in-the-age-of-thinking-machines
Alys Key:
This contributes to another reason why we are getting these missives from on high about AI. It’s a nebulous reason, a public mood, best expressed by a Silicon Valley meme about the “permanent underclass”. Half-joking, half-serious, this term describes the idea that AI brings about an end to social mobility by replacing all human labor, and that there are only a few years left in which to accumulate wealth before that happens. Those AI shareholders will be fine. For the rest of us, it’s anyone’s guess.
This is an extreme scenario, but taps into a feeling that we might get left behind. More than generalized anxiety about inequality, this is a fear that the new wave of wealth and superintelligence will end everything about life as we know it. It is a feeling intermingled with disappointment over stagnant wages, the cost of living, the state of politics, the environmental crisis, the slow loss of newspapers/Saturday jobs/bank branches/whatever it was that made life feel real to you.
I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html
The A.I. actress on her craft, the future of film and how she definitely does not intend to murder us.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html
The A.I. actress on her craft, the future of film and how she definitely does not intend to murder us.