Isobel Cockerell
Senior Reporter at Coda Story
Journalist @CodaStory: covering climate and tech. 🎥 💻 🎙 Also @Guardian @TheEconomist @NoemaMag @Wired @Audible_com @ColumbiaJourn
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codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell
Jared Genser and Rafael Yuste are an unlikely pair. Yuste, a professor at Columbia University, spends his days in neuroscience labs, using lasers to experiment on the brains of mice. Genser has traveled the world as an international human rights lawyer representing prisoners in 30 countries. But when they met, the two became fast friends.
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codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell
In April last year I was in Perugia, at the annual international journalism festival. I was sitting in a panel session about whether AI marked the end of journalism, when a voice note popped up on my Signal. This story is part of “Captured”, our special issue in which we ask whether AI, as it becomes integrated into every part of our lives, is now a belief system. Who are the prophets? What are the commandments? Is there an ethical code? How do the AI evangelists imagine the future?
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codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell
This article is an adapted extract from CAPTURED, our new podcast series with Audible about the secret behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover. Click here to listen. We’re moving slowly through the traffic in the heart of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Gleaming office blocks have sprung up in the past few years, looming over the townhouses and shopping malls. We’re with a young man named James Oyange — but everyone who knows him calls him Mojez.
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codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell
I grew up in rural Idaho in the late 80s and early 90s. My childhood was idyllic. I’m the oldest of five children. My father was an engineer-turned-physician, and my mother was a musician — she played the violin and piano. We lived in an amazing community, with great schools, dear friends and neighbors. There was lots of skiing, biking, swimming, tennis, and time spent outdoors.
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flipboard.com | Isobel Cockerell
1 day agoWorry over worker visas goes viral in Silicon ValleyGerrit De Vynck of The Washington Post reports that tech workers with H-1Bs are being advised to not leave the country in case they can't reenter. The industry fears that major constraints on skilled immigration would hold back innovation, he says. 1 day agoSo Much for the MAGA DivorceThe nativist right is starting to make peace with Elon Musk. Steve Bannon seems resigned to sharing power with the “tech bros,” as he calls them.
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RT @CodaStory: AI has evolved beyond technology into a new kind of faith system—complete with prophets, salvation narratives, and promises…
What happens when you trade in Mormonism and the pursuit of Godlike perfection for tech-world optimization and Bryan Johnson's Don't Die movement? J. Paul Neeley went on a nightmare journey taking the Blueprint Protocol: https://t.co/oWNKnBY9hO
RT @CodaStory: @isocockerell We recently teamed up with @SnapJudgment to transform Hashim's story into a powerful podcast episode. Now thou…