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Vauhini Vara Examines Selfhood With Assistance from ChatGPT
When tech writer Vauhini Vara was struggling to process her sister’s death in 2021, she asked an early version of ChatGPT to write about it through an increasingly complex series of prompts. The essays in her collection “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” build on her conversations with AI, enlisting its help to grapple with what it means to be human when our thoughts, our words — and with them, our very humanity — are filtered through machines. We talk to Vara about how technological capitalism is redefining what it means to be human.
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Vauhini Vara Examines Selfhood With Assistance from ChatGPTWhen tech writer Vauhini Vara was struggling to process her sister’s death in 2021, she asked an early version of ChatGPT to write about it through an increasingly complex series of prompts. The essays in her collection “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” build on her conversations with AI, enlisting its help to grapple with what it means to be human when our thoughts, our words — and with them, our very humanity — are filtered through machines. We talk to Vara about how technological capitalism is redefining what it means to be human.
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The Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Legal MigrantsTens of thousands of immigrants received notices last week from the Department of Homeland Security that their temporary legal statuses would be terminated in seven days. But many immigration experts say the migrants have legal grounds to remain. This comes after a New York Times investigation found that the Social Security Administration listed more than 6,300 migrants as dead to effectively cancel their access to financial services. We’ll talk about the latest developments in the Trump administration’s approach to immigration — one that’s been more reliant on revoking legal statuses and encouraging self-deportation than on the mass deportations promised on the campaign trail.
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Preserving Culture Amid Perpetual WarThe two years of fighting in Sudan has destroyed cities and has likely killed hundreds of thousands of people. How the Sudanese people are preserving their culture, music and storytelling amid perpetual war. That story, and the news.
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Pints and Patriotism A veterans group in Maine has been holding public meetings at brew-pubs to try to cut across partisan divides. Pints and patriotism, on All Things Considered.
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‘Mindfulness City’Bhutan is planning a new mega-city to rev up its economy. But Bhutan also wants to uphold its environmental stewardship. So, it's reinventing what a big city can look like. How Bhutan is building its "Mindfulness City."
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