Giving Fans AI to Riff on Popular Shows
Fable Studio's Showrunner lets fans of a TV show or movie use generative artificial intelligence to build new plots using familiar characters and settings.
Opinion
Insights and analysis from expert contributors
California’s Proposed Regulation Would Strengthen, Not Harm, AI
The bill would create limited oversight of the most powerful models to prevent significant harms.
Protect Open-Source AI From Attacks by Big Tech
Open-source software undergirds the internet; it will work for AI.
California’s Effort to Regulate AI Would Stifle Innovation
A bill approved by the state Senate would impose burdensome rules on model developers and could hamper competition.
Selling Data for AI May Be Publishers’ Salvation
Developers of large language models increasingly are paying internet publishers for access to their content. The payments could supplant ad revenue for some publishers.
To Succeed With AI, Give up Control
We're used to 'pulling' information from computers. We need to let AI 'push' work to us instead.
How Generative AI Threatens Hollywood’s Walled Gardens
Now you, too, can experiment with Mickey Mouse.
Rosen is the author of Medium Shift, a column about the post-streaming wars media convergence.
How to Regain Control Over Your Data
No longer must we, the users, accept the terms and conditions of the contracts apps and platforms put in front of us. Instead, we require them to sign our terms and conditions.
To Build a Winning Defense Tech Company, Think Outside the Pentagon
Success typically depends on commercial sales.
AI Has an Uber Problem
A handful of deep-pocketed investors distorts the market, fueling a race for monopoly that inhibits product-market fit.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media.
Consumer Startups Are a Better Bet Than Enterprise Startups
Our analysis found that consumer companies are more likely to go public at higher valuations than enterprise-focused companies and offer better margins and growth rates.
The Media Revolution Will Be Prompted
Artificial intelligence tools that create videos from text prompts may threaten creators—and Netflix.
Rosen is the author of Medium Shift, a column about the post-streaming wars media convergence.
How AI Will Change Our Relationship With Computers
We’ve always adapted to software. Now, AI is enabling software to adapt to humans instead.
Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technology fan.
Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
People worried about AI taking their jobs are competing with a myth. Instead, people should train themselves to be better humans.
Esther Dyson is a longtime tech industry analyst, the author of “Release 2:0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age,” a former tech columnist for The New York Times (its Release 3.0 column), and founder of Wellville, a 10-year nonprofit project focused on health, equity and long-term thinking in five small U.S. communities.
How to Build an AI-Enabled Service Company
Copilots will often be subsumed into existing software. Better to build a law firm or financial services firm from scratch, employing artificial intelligence at every step.
Roddy Lindsay (@RoddyLindsay) is the founder and CEO of Zabit, an AI-enabled health services startup.
How to Build Trust in Artificial Intelligence
The OpenAI drama shows that companies can't police themselves. Government and nonprofits need help to ensure the technology benefits humanity.
Chowdhury is the CEO and co founder of Humane Intelligence, a tech accountability nonprofit.
The People OpenAI Should Consider for Its New Board
The board should include a data ethicist, a philosopher of mind, a neuroscientist, a computer scientist with interdisciplinary expertise and a political strategist.
Tom Chavez is a co-founder of Super{set}, a startup studio, and chair of the Ethical Tech Project, a think-and-do tank.
Media Executives Covet Games, but Are Ill-Suited to Run Them
Warner Bros. Discovery should consider spinning off its TV business and merging the rest of the company, including its studios, with a gaming powerhouse like Electronic Arts.
Rosen is the author of Medium Shift, a column about the post-streaming wars media convergence.
AI Can Reshape the Physical World—If We Regulate It Properly
AI has changed the digital world and is now poised to transform how the physical world is designed and built.
Andrew Anagnost is the president and CEO of Autodesk.
To Continue Innovating, OpenAI Should Return to Its Nonprofit Roots
Many important tech breakthroughs originated in research organizations. But the innovations are most often commercialized elsewhere.
Desai is founder and managing director of Shakti, an early stage venture capital firm.