By Diana Opong and Alec Cowan When tech companies began announcing advanced artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, there was widespread enthusiasm. AI was going to…
More than 100 years ago, Elmer Rice wrote a play about an accountant, Mr. Zero, who loses his job to a new piece of technology,…
By Dusty Somers By the time our new technological overlords decide to take our jobs, let’s hope they’ve fine-tuned the compassion settings. In “The Adding…
By Jay Irwin The machines are coming for our livelihoods, Dear Readers. That was the fear a century ago with the 1923 play “The Adding…
By Margo Vansynghel There are a thousand different ways to be an artist. For some, it’s a viable full-time career. But according to The Seattle Times 2024…
By Margo Vansynghel, Gemma Wilson, Moira Macdonald and Michael Rietmulder Basic income, affordable housing and free health care for artists. These may sound like pie-in-the-sky ideas, but multiple organizations here…