You're Not an AI Customer, You're an Unpaid Investor
Your data, your power bill, and your taxes are already funding the AI buildout, whether or not you've ever used it.
Lexi Reese
Lexi Reese writes about power—how it's accumulated, how it's used, and how it affects ordinary people—and what makes her perspective unique is that she's seen it as a tech executive, U.S. Senate candidate, and now as an AI company co-founder and CEO.
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All Must Have Prizes
A DOLLAR CAN’T BE BETTER. YOU CAN.
The Price of Being Understood
What a day at the NIH reveals about kindness, profit, public health, and the kind of country America could still choose to be
Who Belongs Here, and Who Gets to Say So?
At 250 years old, we are deciding whether to welcome the tired and the poor, or only the skilled, the wealthy, and the white.
A Drag Show by Another Name
Why sequins are obscene and cages are patriotic
Ick
Why do male VCs think anyone wants to cold plunge with them?
Stressed Woman
That was the diagnosis. It was fast. It was wrong. It could have killed her.
The Most Controversial Acronym in America Has a Definition.
The People Enforcing It Just Won't Use It.
There Is No Comedy in First Class
For about a year, I lived on the other side of the curtain.
Reflections from the Long Middle
On illness, imagination, and the America we designed by the healthy for the healthy