Why Are Students Using AI To Cheat? Maybe Because They Shouldn't Be In College At All
AI cheating is often a crutch for students ill-equipped to attend a four-year university.
AI cheating is often a crutch for students ill-equipped to attend a four-year university.
The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's impact on dopamine levels.
The widely resented and ridiculed policy, which the U.S. was nearly alone in enforcing, never made much sense.
The market has demonstrated it’s perfectly capable of fostering innovation and competition without government intervention.
AI chatbots failed to "rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding antisemitism," in a way that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey likes.
Superman is not "Superwoke."
The former FBI director's cringey Instagram photos are not an "exigent circumstance" that allows law enforcement to circumvent the Constitution.
She did her best to manage Elon Musk, protect free speech on X, and appease advertisers.
Rather than reducing government's role in space travel, the bills shovels more taxpayer money into an agency that is being outperformed by the private sector.
The Constitution requires the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
Billions upon billions of dollars are allocated for border screening technology, immigration detention facilities, more ICE agents, and building a border wall.
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What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?
The ban is a bad law. But leaving it on the books and willfully ignoring it sets a potentially more dangerous precedent.
The Chamber of Commerce has called the tax a “disastrous” policy that threatens the state’s economy and its future as a tech hub.
In this painfully mediocre Jurassic Park franchise placeholder, even the hypocrisy is nostalgic.
Now nearly 100 state AI laws will remain in force—and nearly 1,000 more are already waiting in the wings.
New laws aimed at protecting kids online won’t work, and could even make things worse. Parents, not politicians, are the best defense against digital dangers.
From minimum wage hikes to bans on cellphones in public schools, here are some of the most ridiculous ways state governments are interfering with Americans’ lives.
While a viral post called the results “shocking,” the study itself found little evidence that social media use harms mental health.
Power-hungry data centers, disappearing jobs, and billions of dollars in subsidies are fueling resentment. If developers and policymakers don’t change course, Americans may reject AI before it ever delivers on its most significant promises.
The lawsuit is a win not just for Anthropic, but for all users of large language models.
The NO FAKES Act imposes censorship, threatens anonymity, and regulates innovation.
The Trump administration continues its war against disfavored speech.
Unfortunately, the director of Health and Human Services leads a movement prone to untrue beliefs on medical matters from cell phones to vaccines, pesticides, and genetically modified crops.
Omnicom Group and the Interpublic Group of Companies accepted the Federal Trade Commission's anti-boycott proviso to complete their merger. Instead of capitulating to the commission, Media Matters is suing.
Officials at the border have the power to paw through sensitive data on your phone.
A lawsuit against the genomics company "imposes top-down restrictions" rather than "establishing clear rules" or "letting companies equip individuals with better tools to manage their privacy," says one expert.
Partly from coercion and partly by choice, many banks and social media businesses impose severe gun controls
The Senate parliamentarian says the 10-year AI moratorium may be passed by a simple majority through the Senate's budget reconciliation process.
Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction."
After Vance Boelter allegedly targeted Democrats in an attack, some conservatives jumped to claim that he was actually on the left. Why?
With the culture war blazing, not even the Supreme Court could agree on the medical facts of the case.
The Trump Organization says the phone is domestically manufactured, but its hardware—and a statement from Eric Trump—suggest otherwise.
States keep banning lab-grown meat. Entrepreneurs keep innovating anyway.
Triple-digit bilateral tariffs have been brought down to double digits. Negotiations on semiconductors and rare earth elements will continue.
Starbase, Texas, is rushing to restrict development in the newly incorporated city.
The result is the same: attacks on tech companies and attempts to violate Americans' rights.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is petitioning the government to throw roadblocks in his rivals' way.
A genomics PhD and conservative bioethicist debate the ethics of in vitro fertilization and discuss recent scientific advancements in reproductive medicine.
In a petty, public war of words, Trump threatens to cut off federal support to Musk's companies after the billionaire attacked his deficit-busting budget bill.
Italy is full of treasures from the ancient world, but its government is discouraging their discovery.
The limited-run Netflix series is fueling a real-life push for the British government to protect kids from online dangers.
A federal court in Florida will consider whether chatbot output is First Amendment-protected speech.
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