AI ghosts, feminist puns, and furious actors.
Here are today’s AJ highlights. Emma Thompson declared war on Microsoft’s chatbot “helper,” saying she’d “like to strangle it,” in a gloriously human outburst in The Guardian. In a different technological haunting, Suzanne Somers’s widower unveiled her “AI twin,” prompting ethical alarm bells via CBC. France’s new lesbian literary award, the cheekily titled Prix Gouincourt, reclaimed satire as solidarity in Le Monde. And amid these modern provocations, The New York Times revisited Hedda Gabler via Nia DaCosta’s 1950s twist, while BBC traced Frankenstein’s monstrous imagination back to the Scottish moors.
Editor’s Note: If art is still asking what it means to be human, technology seems all too eager to answer.
All of today’s story links are below.
