Source: Illustrated by Kalos Chan, image owned by Ben Sedley Have you ever felt worried? And someone said, “Don’t worry about it”? Did that help? Have you ever felt sad? And someone said, “Cheer up”?

The night I realized I was a monster, I was wearing a volunteer badge and serving soup to the homeless. “God bless you,” I said mechanically, ladling hot liquid into a disposable bowl. My sleeve rode ...

This week’s Being Human, “Something to Watch Over Me,” saw all three characters coming to realizations about themselves. Since all of them have been in their current states for varying amounts of time ...

Clubbing on a Monday night — that’s the image that came into my mind as I was reading the great new book by Christine Rosen, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World. Rosen is ...

Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. We’ve stepped or perhaps even fallen into a world where machines speak with seductive confidence. And today, they offer answers that feel polished and curiously ...

There was only one teen in this week’s episode, so “The Teens They Are a Changin” only worked as a title for one character. On the other hand, I think my own headline above is pretty apt. Allow me to ...

It may be humanity’s largest art project ever–teaching machines to understand the art of how to be human. "You can't actually teach a machine to understand humans unless you also teach them to ...

Today The Atlantic is launching Being Human, a new section and newsletter at TheAtlantic.com as part of a major expansion of its writing and reporting on health. The name describes The Atlantic’s wide ...