It’s not up for debate. AI is now a part of our daily lives and will be until the robots completely take over, which some experts believe will happen sooner than we may realize. Scary stuff, but until then, we’ve got to work with LLMs and corral them to ensure they don’t ultimately Borg us like they did to our beloved Capt. Picard (R.I.P., Sir Patrick).
Throughout this issue, we tackle AI’s impact on almost all facets of society (sans interstellar space travel), from data centers on the environment (pg. 5) and the dangers of bot companionship (pg. 8) to jobs (pg. 22), dining (pg. 16), film (pps. 10 and 11), sports (pg. 21), visual art (pg. 12), and music (pps. 18 and 19). So, pour a cup of machine-made coffee and turn some pages. Make it so.
