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Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  From the archive: ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism

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  The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the c…

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  Chainsaws, disguises and toxic tea: the battle for Sheffield’s trees

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  From the archive: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France

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  ‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated bl…

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  Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel

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  Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

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  The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?

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  ‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportatio…

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  From the archive: The last of the Zoroastrians

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  The insider: how Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Ba…

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  ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could chan…

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  From the archive: What I have learned from my suicidal patients

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  The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician…

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  ‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail

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  From the archive: ‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israel…