WIRED Magazine - September 2023

In this issue

AI Goes to War
A small US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next great conflict at sea.
by Will Knight

Mind Wide Open
Kids soak up new skills, adults not so much. But neuroscientist Gül Dölen might have found a way to help grown-ups learn like littles and heal from stroke and trauma. Step one: Take psychedelics.
by Rachel Nuwer

A.I. Is a Fiction

Stop freaking out when chatbots say they're in love or make disturbing threats. Just treat them like Pinocchio.

6 mins

BRING THE NOISE

A vast array of gadgets make it easy to blot out sonic intrusions-maybe a little too easy

5 mins

THE GREAT DIVIDE

There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It's batch vs. loopand we really need them to reconcile

4 mins

SAFETY FIRST

Fears that artificial intelligence might wipe us out have fueled the rise of protest groups like Pause Al. Their warnings are far-fetched, but not that far-fetched

5 mins

FRAUD TRACKER

With her blog Web3 Is Going Just Great, software engineer Molly White rains on the crypto parade. She doesn't feel great about it

2 mins

The Fractal Immortality of Grimes

I thought my interview with Grimes-the mysterious techno artist, fan of all nerddom, and the deepest of insiders in Elon Musk's world-would be one-on-one. Instead it wound up as a roundtable discussion. Turns out there are multiple personas embedded in the surprisingly haimish human who sat under a tree with me and spent the waning hours of an afternoon in conversation. There was Claire Boucher, the given name of a Vancouver kid obsessed with video games and devoted to provoking adults with misbehavior and the embrace of taboo subjects. There was Grimes, the self-invented, scrappy DIY musician and provocateur who weaves sci-fi into her work and released what Pitchfork judged to be the second-best song of the 2010s. And there was her preferred nomenclature, "c," invoking the speed of light

10+ mins

MIND WIDE OPEN

Kids soak up new skills, adults not so much. But neuroscientist Gül Dölen might have found a way to help grownups learn like littles and heal from stroke and trauma. Step one: Take psychedelics.

10+ mins

The Revolutionary Absurdity of Boots Riley

The scene is straight out of Boots Riley's madcap moviemaking handbook

10+ mins

A. I. Goes to War

Ships without crews. Autonomous drone swarms. A small U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and Artificial Intelligence to prepare for the next great conflict at sea

10+ mins

THE DEFECTOR

Doug Rushkoff was one of tech's founding optimists. Now he's renouncing the digital revolution. He says it's the only human option.

10+ mins

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