In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a conservative women’s magazine.

You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether.

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it’s betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider.

Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.