My latest in The Nation on AI companion litigation

Also, I'll be migrating some of you over to BROTOPIANS

Mar 30 • David Futrelle

I'm in The Nation, talking about Anthropic and the politics of killer robots

Check it out!

Mar 6 • David Futrelle

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February 2026

Thank you new subscribers!

But my newsletter is in another castle!

Feb 27 • David Futrelle

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January 2026

So I've started a new thing called BROTOPIANS

And you want to read it!

Jan 7 • David Futrelle

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July 2023

That robot press conference at the United Nations was a really bad idea

Unless the intention was to get right-wingers even more riled up by artificial intelligence

Jul 13, 2023 • David Futrelle

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Replika: The world's least loving lovebot?

Replika users face off against the "therapist bots" that have eaten their former AI lovers

Jul 1, 2023 • David Futrelle

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June 2023

And another thing: The creepiest bits in Marc Andreessen's anti-AI-doomer rant

Will AIs really deliver "the machine version of infinite love" and do we want them to?

Jun 16, 2023 • David Futrelle

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Marc Andreessen's attempted takedown of the AI doomers is wrong and stupid and not really a takedown at all

Reading the venture capitalist's 7000-word rant so you don't have to

Jun 14, 2023 • David Futrelle

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Should you bring children into a world disrupted by AI?

Artificial Intelligence changes the terms of the natalist debate

Jun 8, 2023 • David Futrelle

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May 2023

People are having sex with ChatGPT

And it just seems wrong, somehow

May 25, 2023 • David Futrelle

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Chatbots on the verge of a nervous breakdown

A new software update has fans of the Replika companion bot calling foul--again

May 19, 2023 • David Futrelle

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I tried the right-wing chatbot GIPPR, and I don't think it likes me very much

The so-called "TRUTHFUL Chatbot" is a Bizarro-world ChatGPT

May 4, 2023 • David Futrelle

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