Opinion

The Social Media Panicmongers Have Pivoted to AI

APOCALYPSE, AGAIN

The science populists who stoked a Reefer Madness-like hysteria about social media are onto their next target—and predictably predicting the imminent end of the world.

Louis Anslow
Louis Anslow
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Louis Anslow

Louis Anslow

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