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Issue 1
THE AI ABYSS

THE AI ABYSS

Rankin: All right, Chatty, so I’ve been mulling over the interview with you the other day. I want to continue now and go even deeper. For fun, can you suggest ten more questions for me to ask you? ChatGPT: All right, we’re going deeper. Here are 10 more...
CLEAN-UP ON AISLE EGO

CLEAN-UP ON AISLE EGO

Rankin: Is ego (male and white) killing the world? ChatGPT: Oh, absolutely. Ego, especially in its bloated, self-serving and fragile forms, is choking the planet like a bad perfume ad that won’t go away. Machine learning engineers (MLEs)? Well, they’re...
UNCAINNY VALLEY

UNCAINNY VALLEY

What is a doll but a dead-eyed sentry of patriarchal dogma? From the moment a little girl is handed one, she is being conditioned, taught that her role is to cradle, to nurture, to preen. The doll, that lifeless, silent cipher, offers her first lesson in submission....