When I told AI my story, it helped me heal. Now, I’m on a mission to help other people use AI to tell their own authentic stories. The AI’s response stopped me cold. Instead of the usual generic ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...

For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story titled “Strange Playfellow ...

Welcome to Asking for a Friend, a monthly advice column dedicated to helping you make sense of your messiest, most complicated friendship moments. Each month, clinical psychologist Miriam Kirmayer, ...

These days, everyone seems to have an opinion about A.I. companions. Last year, I found myself joining the debate, publishing a paper—co-written with two fellow psychology professors and a philosopher ...

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