Andrew R. Chow

Chow is a technology correspondent at TIME. He covers crypto, AI, tech regulation, and culture.

Recent Articles

How Trump’s Use of AI Videos Is Changing His Political Playbook

Trump’s AI videos are reshaping online politics and testing how far misinformation and satire can go.

By Rebecca Schneid and Andrew R. Chow

When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media?

With realistic AI videos flooding the timeline, social media is becoming a fake content machine.

By Andrew R. Chow

Chatbots Turn Explicit in a Bid to Attract Paying Customers

OpenAI's erotica feature for adult users marks a shift in the company, but is in alignment with a greater trend for AI chatbots.

By Andrew R. Chow and Solcyré Burga

How D'Angelo Embodied Black Genius

The visionary singer-songwriter, who died at the age of 51, forged countless moments of genius in his career

By Andrew R. Chow

Is Sam Altman Gambling With the U.S. Economy?

Plus, why Swifties mobilized against AI

By Andrew R. Chow and Nikita Ostrovsky

Why AI Companies Are Pivoting to Video

With Sora, OpenAI joins the race to make AI video the next frontier of social media—and a potential new revenue stream.

By Billy Perrigo and Andrew R. Chow

ByteDance’s AI Videos Blur Truth Online

ByteDance’s new AI visual models rival those from OpenAI and Google. But their spread raises concerns over deepfakes and copyright.

By Andrew R. Chow

Shayne Coplan

Crypto-powered prediction market platform Polymarket regularly facilitates more than $1 billion a month in trading volume, allowing users to bet on anything from elections and military invasions to Taylor Swift’s next album. The company has...

By Andrew R. Chow

The UN’s AI warnings grow louder

Plus, we interviewed Yoshua Bengio

By Andrew R. Chow

Trump’s H-1B Reform Could Harm U.S. Tech

Trump's $100,000 fee for skilled workers could push talent overseas—and hamper cutting-edge research.

By Andrew R. Chow and Tharin Pillay

TikTok Deal Raises Fears of U.S. Surveillance

The TikTok deal is being hailed as a win for national security. But experts fear it could trade one threat of surveillance for another.

By Andrew R. Chow

What Anthropic Wants From Washington

Dario Amodei and other Anthropic leaders pushed for export controls and safety guardrails at a D.C. event.

By Andrew R. Chow

Gustavo Ajche Is Advocating for Delivery Workers

Through organizing via social media, on-the-ground rallies, and political activism, Los Deliveristas Unidos has secured a string of victories.

By Andrew R. Chow

The World’s Richest Man (For a Day)

Oracle chairman Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest as AI deals and stock buybacks fueled a historic $100 billion gain.

By Andrew R. Chow

Megan Garcia

Megan Garcia bears the weight of one of the gravest AI-related tragedies to date: In February 2024, her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, took his life after becoming romantically obsessed with a chatbot based on...

By Andrew R. Chow

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

As the national executive director of the powerful Hollywood union SAG-AFTRA, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland has been on the frontlines of forging protections for workers whose livelihoods are threatened by AI. Among his victories: in July 2024,...

By Andrew R. Chow

Dávid Jancsó

Dávid Jancsó has been a respected editor in the film industry for a decade, and in 2024, he contributed to his highest-profile film yet: The Brutalist. The film earned ten Oscar nominations, including one for...

By Andrew R. Chow

Latanya Sweeney

In 2021, Harvard computer scientist Latanya Sweeney founded the university’s Public Interest Tech Lab with the aim of building a sandbox for budding technologists and a body of research studying how technology is shaping society....

By Andrew R. Chow

Pope Leo XIV

The Catholic Church comprises 1.4 billion believers; were it a nation, the church would be the world’s third-largest. In his first formal speech as its new leader in May, Robert Francis Prevost addressed those adherents...

By Andrew R. Chow

Karen Hao

Journalist Karen Hao began reporting on AI—and specifically OpenAI—years before ChatGPT became a global sensation. She turned that reporting into Empire of AI, a bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley...

By Andrew R. Chow
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