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‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Review: Gore Verbinski’s Big Screen Return Is a Scattershot but Delightful Anti-AI Adventure

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when a movie as intensely anti-phone as “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” would probably have been seen as insufferably preachy, or, at the very least, deeply embarrassing. Think of the period in the mid-2010s when people had generally positive opinions about Elon Musk, when Jason Reitman’s internet morality play “Men, Women, and Children” was received with scorn upon release, when “Black Mirror” was p…

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No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI

Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, is nothing new. Still, the marriage of big tech and politics demands we take a standOn a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was shocked by the billboards that lined the freeway outside of the airport. “The singularity is here,” proclaimed one. “Humanity had a good run,” said another. It seemed like every other sign along the road was plastered with claims from tech firms making outrageous cl…

Paul Feig Joins Anti-AI Theft Campaign, As Organizer Warns Of Big Tech’s Risk To Creativity

EXCLUSIVE: The Housemaid director Paul Feig has joined more than 1,000 creatives in signing an open letter demanding that tech companies stop “stealing” copyrighted artistic work. The Bridesmaids helmer has put his name to the “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” movement from the Human Artistry Campaign, which previously announced Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt among its supporters. Signatories have accused unnamed tech…