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No one likes to think they’re being hysterical. And nothing makes hysterical people angrier than being described as such. So, let me offer my apologies in advance for what follows. Jeremy Musighi, an independent researcher, recently released a study analyzing 14.7 million news articles ...
Atone, America. The high holiday Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, just passed us by at sundown on Sept. 21. Our country, thanks to Donald Trump, has become the scourge of the world. Nowhere was that clearer than in the United Nations General Assembly (Tuesday) where Trump asked world ...
Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon keynoted a Washington conference to demand a stop to AI, its data centers and the risks AI poses to jobs and even to the human species. Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs behind AI. The most potent force in American ...
I didn’t leave my political party; my party left me. Both of them. I’ve been a Democrat, and I’ve been a Republican. What I am now doesn’t matter. The point is that a lot of American voters feel perpetually frustrated by the choices they find on the November ballot. The Democratic or ...
Have you heard about the federal government’s plan to begin denying large batches of background checks for firearms purchases if any one such background check came back inaccurate? The system would work this way: People who purchase a gun from a federally-licensed dealer already are required ...
Since we last visited the artificial intelligence industry in this column, a lot has happened, much of it seeming to confirm my worst fears. Seven weeks ago, I wrote about the “Hugging Face” breach, so called for the company that got hacked with no human intervention by “rogue” AI ...
