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Image: Bryan Johnson (left, by Dustin Giallanza) and Jordan Castro Bryan Johnson and Jordan Castro on AI, God, and Why Psychosis Will Soon Be the New Normal
The “Don’t Die” entrepreneur and the alt lit figurehead discuss what the future has in store, as spirituality and tech continue to collide.
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Photo: Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty Images As If Unaffordable Homes Weren’t Enough, Now Buyers Are Being ‘Housefished’
Don’t get duped by a housefisher.
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Image: Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images If Photography Stole Our Souls, What’s Left for AI?
Michael Holden traces a history of soul-stealing images, from the daguerreotype to AI via Hollywood’s angry Arab chieftains.
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Welcome to Sloptopia: The Future of the Internet
Following the endpoint of the human internet, the bots have overridden their original programming and developed a new language using glyphs.
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Introducing: Our New AI Ragebots!
They’re just like real VICE readers, only even worse.
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(Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for the Songwriters of North America (SONA) Warrior Awards) These Legendary Producers Call AI Music Inevitable, and Their Potential Solution for Co-Existing With It Is Pretty Interesting
Legendary producer duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis give their take on AI, arguing that it’s inevitable, but guidelines would go a long way.
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Mona Lisa, DeepDream (2015) The Terminally Online Mourners Who Miss the Days When AI Made Mistakes
Yearning for the ten-fingered hands and deformed horse glitches of old AI image models? You’re experiencing nostalgia compression.
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Photo: Lazy_Bear / Getty Images The Strange Case of Elias Thorne, the Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With
Elias Thorne is a weird quirk of the system, but also a symbol of just how hollow and deeply unoriginal chatbots can be.
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Photo: Alena Butusava / Getty Images Don’t Want to Use AI at Work? Tell Your Boss It Goes Against Your Religion.
You can thank Pope Leo.
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Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images AI-Powered Teddy Bears for Kids Are Here, and Experts Say They Could Do More Harm Than Good
Ethicists warn that always-on, sycophantic AI companions could quietly replace real-world social learning with engineered attention loops.
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AI Is Evil, But Also Very, Very Funny—This Week On VICE: Members Only
A man who spends his spare time nuking AI OnlyFans chatbots—and AI Nick Land, interviewing AI Homer Simpson.
