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.

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

I suspect he would address the concerns about the technology with a nationally televised address that would go something like this.