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What began as a tool to identify threats to national security is becoming a surveillance infrastructure that can be used to track everyone.

The backlash reveals a strain of snobbery that confuses manufactured fun with a lack of meaning and authenticity.

Has our culture's begrudging acceptance of ghostwriting paved the way for everyone - not just the rich and famous - to offload the hard work of writing?

A linguist explains what makes human English human, and why you shouldn't overdo it with large language models.

Policy and legal efforts aim to stop these malicious security breaches, but they are growing more common as hospitals adopt remote health care delivery and hackers adopt artificial intelligence.

Chatbots tend to produce solid writing, but their prose largely reflects a single, uniform voice.

Assuming that sex is the key factor defining physical ability may undersell what many athletes are capable of.

Relationships with real people can involve rejection, awkwardness, time and emotional labor. But in the 'goonverse,' desire is predictable, endlessly available and never says no.

Long before Pittsburgh's modern Irish celebrations existed, Irish immigrants helped shape the city in the 19th century via the railroads, canals and steel industry.

While rationalizing deception is easy to do, developing the virtue of truthfulness is not.