Wednesday, April 29, 2026
ArchivearticleMarginal Revolution
Will AI end anonymity?Claude identified a journalist from an unpublished romance novel she wrote 20 years ago. The implications for whistleblowers, anonymous writers, and anyone who's ever typed a sentence are staggering.
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articleNew York Times
A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological WeaponsNot hypothetical anymore. Scientists got major chatbots to describe how to assemble deadly pathogens and deploy them in public. The transcripts are real.
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articleArts & Letters Daily
Upward Bound, a novel by a profoundly autistic author, raises an awful but unavoidable question: Who actually wrote it?A profoundly autistic man published a novel. The authorship question it raises is ethically fraught, emotionally complex, and has no clean answer.
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articleForeign Affairs
The Real Threat to TaiwanThe US is gaming out a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Foreign Affairs argues that's the wrong scenario entirely — and the real threat looks nothing like it.
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