Webb Wright @_webbwright
Journalist covering AI for @Gizmodo. Also seen in @TheAtlantic, @sciam, @WIRED, @QuantaMagazine, @VICE, and elsewhere. Obsessed with words and music. Brooklyn, NY Joined January 2021-
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I've officially joined @Gizmodo as a senior reporter covering AI! Feeling very lucky to be a part of this team. I'll be covering the industry from all angles—technical, legal, economic, psychological, philosophical. Send tips to wwright@Gizmodo.com.
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The boosters behind AI tell us that this is the unavoidable next stage in technological evolution—so we may as well just accept it. @_webbwright calls bullshit. thebaffler.com/latest/think-n…
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Robin Carhart-Harris Is Mapping the Mind Using Psychedelics | DoubleBlind Mag doubleblindmag.com/robin-carhart-…
Honored to have profiled @RCarhartHarris for @doubleblindmag: doubleblindmag.com/robin-carhart-…
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New for @WIRED: DMT trip reports are full of encounters with what seem to be intelligent, otherworldly beings, including the "self-transforming elf machines" of Terence McKenna fame. Are they just hallucinations, or something more? wired.com/story/some-peo…
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I was interviewed for and quoted in this @ZDNET article on Chatbots written by @_webbwright zdnet.com/article/how-ai…
Anthropic researchers say they've found "evidence for some degree of introspective awareness in our current Claude models, as well as a degree of control over their own internal states." My latest for @ZDNET: zdnet.com/article/ai-is-…
@jeffrsebo @mmblaszczyk @Inframethod @David_Gunkel @TheAtlantic @rgblong I volunteer to moderate @jeffrsebo @David_Gunkel
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"The human brain is simply not wired to treat AI like any other technology," Webb Wright writes. "For some users, the system is alive." theatlantic.com/technology/202…
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As concerns grow about AI chatbots leading users into delusional spirals, prominent spiritual influencers are capitalizing on an emerging form of techno-spirituality. wired.com/story/spiritua…
New for @WIRED: Using the language of New Age spirituality, wellness, and quantum woo, prominent influencers are claiming that AI is a gateway to numinous wisdom—even as reports of chatbots leading users into spirals of delusion continue to mount. wired.com/story/spiritua…
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Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. wired.com/story/research…
How much of human behavior is deterministic—a set of probabilities no more inscrutable to algorithms than so many pieces on a chessboard? To find out, I interviewed an AI agent trained to mimic my personality. My latest for @sciam: scientificamerican.com/article/can-a-…
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what? no. People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/111…
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recent paper shows that the “creativity” of certain AI may actually be a direct, inevitable consequence of how they are built. quantamagazine.org/researchers-un… @_webbwright @QuantaMagazine
Both psychedelics and AI, in their own separate ways, can help illuminate the inner reaches of the human mind. For @techreview, I wrote about the dangers—and moments of strange beauty—that can occur when the two are used together. technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/111…
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Honored to have had my recent work with @SuryaGanguli on the mechanisms behind creativity in diffusion models featured in this lovely article by @_webbwright for Quanta magazine!
In a recent paper, physicists used two predictable factors to reproduce the “creativity” seen from image-generating AI. @_webbwright reports: quantamagazine.org/researchers-un…
Can image-generating AI models really be "creative"? Or is there something deeper at play? My latest for @QuantaMagazine: x.com/QuantaMagazine…
In a recent paper, physicists used two predictable factors to reproduce the “creativity” seen from image-generating AI. @_webbwright reports: quantamagazine.org/researchers-un…
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