Before Congress and philosophers decide how an AI system ought to live and die, we might want a clearer account of what sort of thing we believe AI is.
Dovie was a New Yorker whose last public writing act was to speak out against assisted suicide in a very personal practical way.
I want to apologize to you, denizen of the future, for the decisions that we, the people of 2026, made that determined how you live. In America today, ...
We do seem to radically discount how disruptive television was to cultural transmission and the education of elites.
President Trump’s nominee to replace Eight Circuit Judge Mack Traynor is North Dakota Solicitor General Phil Axt.
Does Artificial Intelligence Dream of Electric Sheep? Star Wars, Episode I? It may be a low bar, but some of the ideas put forward by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are an improvement on those of ...
Many colleges and universities now require incoming students (called freshmen in the old days) to take a course on what being in college entails — a ‘First Year Experience” (FYE) course. Are they ...
The long wait for organs threatens the ethics of transplant medicine, with some bioethicists calling for the end of the dead donor rule — allowing “ death by organ donation ” — while a few have gone ...
AOC and others rallying to the rapper’s defense are telling on themselves. If the recording artist Macklemore had only made “pro-Palestinian comments” from the stage during his performances, as the ...
What Our Society Would Lose If Lindsay Clancy Is Exonerated Audio By Carbonatix All of a sudden, all the AI mavens are aligned. Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, said this week that his company welcomes “a ...
On the menu today: We’re a dramatically different country than we were 25 years ago today. I suspect if you’re old enough to remember, you look around at America, and its political discourse, and you ...
And in good part it is the feeling of immortality produced by having been shot at and missed: Trump Sr. and his whole circle survived some seriously abusive lawfare, and at the same time saw the ...