This was the year when many Times readers began to care about artificial intelligence. In today’s newsletter, we’re ranking the most popular Times articles of 2023 in four different ways. One of the rankings is based on “gift-sharing” — when Times subscribers send free copies of articles to friends and family who don’t have a subscription. Among the most gift shared articles of 2023 were those that covered the perils of artificial intelligence, a reporter’s unsettling chat with an A.I. Below are the gift-shared list as well as three others: the most-read articles; the most-read interactive features and trackers; and the articles that readers spent the most cumulative time reading.

Source: New York Times December 27, 2023 23:40 UTC