Diego Alarcón

“Americans have not put up much of a fight against the sense of alienation caused by our growing dependence on screens,” Jay Caspian Kang writes. Many people have taken small steps to reduce their individual screen time: blocking distracting apps, leaving phones on “Do Not Disturb,” using ChatGPT for only the most mundane searches. But in order to truly change our relationship with technology, Kang argues, we must work collectively. One of the longest-running political actions against A.I. has come from nurses, who have been protesting the technology’s incursion into their profession since 2024. As A.I. has infiltrated many parts of a nurse’s workday, and large health-care companies have partnered with Palantir, nurses have staged high-profile strikes and protests. At the link in our bio, Kang considers using collective action to address our uniquely personal dissatisfactions with our screen lives: newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…

Google is making A.I. functions optional, rather than permanently accessible, on its software suite for schools and students, but with a catch: if schools turned off the Gemini A.I. functions, they would lose access to Google Search, too. “This policy amounts to a threat: use generative A.I. or use nothing,” Kyle Chayka writes. The largest tech companies are investing so much capital in A.I. infrastructure that they must make the bet pay off, one way or another. Read more about how A.I. is changing the ways we search: newyorker.com/culture/infini…