Andrew R. Chow

Chow is a technology correspondent at TIME. He covers crypto, AI, tech regulation, and culture.

Recent Articles

How Swift's Endorsement Took On AI Misinfo

Taylor Swift's Instagram post endorsing Harris was just as focused on warning the public about the dangers of AI.

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Rohit Prasad

Developing artificial general intelligence (AGI)—or an AI smart as a human—is the “north star” for Amazon’s Rohit Prasad, who jumped from being Alexa’s head scientist to running a newly-created Amazon AI team last year. While...

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Nat Friedman

Nat Friedman’s fingerprints can be found across the AI landscape. He and his close collaborator Daniel Gross run one of the world’s most powerful chip clusters and a GPU rental service. They invest hundreds of...

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Martin Heinrich

New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich has long been a leader in AI legislation on the hill: He co-founded the AI Caucus in 2019 after observing the rapid development of machine learning. A couple of years...

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Scarlett Johansson

In 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow fought against an AI trying to wipe out humanity. This year, in real life, she launched into battle against OpenAI, becoming the most prominent public...

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Francesca Mani

Last October, 15-year-old New Jersey high school student Franceseca Mani learned that boys in her class had used AI software to fabricate sexually explicit images of Mani and her female classmates. Since then, she has...

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Steve Huffman

With its millions of daily active users, Reddit remains one of the most formidable homes for user-generated content on the internet. Large language models are always hungry for information and data to train on, and...

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Peter-Lucas Jones

Thousands of indigenous languages across the world are in danger of extinction, as elders who preserved them die out and dominant languages like English extend their grip. Some indigenous technologists believe that AI has a...

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Kyogu Lee

The K-pop industry, a towering cultural and financial force, has been quicker to experiment with AI than the American music industry. While the conversation about AI and music in the U.S. is largely dominated by...

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Ethan Mollick

While many discussions about artificial intelligence speculate on its future, Ethan Mollick is focused on how people can wield AI tools right now. Mollick is a Wharton professor and an author whose book Co-Intelligence, is...

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Chinasa T. Okolo

With so much AI development emerging from Silicon Valley, communities in the Global South risk getting left behind technologically, victimized by biased systems, or exploited for their data. Chinasa T. Okolo, a Nigerian-American computer scientist...

By Andrew R. Chow

Becky Pringle

Few parts of society have been impacted by the rise of AI in a more tangible way than education. Tools like ChatGPT have helped students learn, but also facilitated cheating and threatened students’ abilities to...

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Lina Khan

Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has been a thorn in the side of Big Tech companies since her 2021 appointment, arguing that major players have become too monopolistic and powerful. Over the last year,...

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Mira Murati

It’s been a tumultuous 12 months for Mira Murati, one of the driving forces behind OpenAI’s meteoric rise. As the company’s chief technology officer, Murati worked behind the scenes to guide models like ChatGPT and...

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Willonius Hatcher

This summer, as Kendrick Lamar and Drake fired vicious disses back and forth, an unlikely third party ended up creating one of the defining songs of the high-profile rap feud. King Willonius, a little-known New...

By Andrew R. Chow

Inside the Rise of Bitcoin-Powered Pools and Bathhouses

A handful of establishments are attempting to harness energy from intensive computing for greater societal use.

By Andrew R. Chow

The Arrest of Telegram’s CEO Sparks Outrage

Durov's detainment in France has implications for free speech and social media responsibility.

By Andrew R. Chow

Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Siege of D.C.

An excerpt from Andrew R. Chow's "Cryptomania" details Sam Bankman-Fried's insidious influence campaign in Washington D.C.

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Could a Crypto App Save Restaurants?

Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, wants Blackbird to be a restaurant discovery app, payment system, and loyalty program.

By Andrew R. Chow

Why Kaepernick Is Starting an AI Company

“We’re going to see a whole new world of stories and perspectives,” the activist and quarterback tells TIME.

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