Feds See the Document Leak as an Opportunity for Surveillance and Control
Never underestimate officials’ ability to turn embarrassing moments into awful opportunities.
Never underestimate officials’ ability to turn embarrassing moments into awful opportunities.
Federal A.I. regulation now will hinder progress, consumer choice, and market competition.
In one sequence, the Jerry Seinfeld stand-in stood onstage at a comedy club for minutes without saying a word.
'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.
The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
Even the best studies haven't surmounted a key statistical issue, and they tend to distort the evidence to make e-cigarettes look dangerous.
Intelligence Squared U.S. has a new name and ambitions to host presidential debates.
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A.I. won’t kill cooking. Instead, it’ll help people become more creative and efficient in the kitchen.
The bipartisan RESTRICT Act is an infringement on a host of civil and economic rights that will strangle free speech and cryptocurrencies.
Industrial policy is never as simple as it seems.
The book's 12 thematic chapters are dense and rich—like flan, but good.
Where am I supposed to spend my cryptocurrency?
A Colorado man was convicted under an anti-stalking law for sending hostile messages online.
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Eliminating taxation on compensation for being a human guinea pig is just good public policy.
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Plus: the terrible case for pausing A.I. innovation
Three reasons not to ban the popular social media app
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Is an A.I. "foom" even possible?
Once again, politicians use popular fears to push for open-ended power.
For good and ill, human beings advance through trial and error. The same will be the case with A.I.
The economic historian and Magatte Wade, Alex Gladstein, Mohamad Machine-Chian, Tony Woodlief, and Tom Palmer are challenging authoritarians everywhere.
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Jonathan Haidt's integrity and transparency are admirable, but the studies he's relying on aren't strong enough to support his conclusions.
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Today, TikTok. Tomorrow, who knows?
After launching, ChatGPT hit 1 million sign-ups much faster than Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter did.
Which sentence in this podcast was generated using A.I.?
Foreign-born tech workers in the U.S. have been especially vulnerable as tech giants lay off large shares of their work forces.
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Our mobile devices constantly snitch on our whereabouts.
TikTok's CEO served as little more than a punching bag for lawmakers with a dizzying array of big tech grievances.
It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
Nature's 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden changed no minds but did significantly undermine trust in science.
The designer of China's Great Firewall sees new A.I. tech as a concern for public authorities.
Coinbase says the agency's assault will "only drive innovation, jobs, and the entire industry overseas."
Copyright law is just one area that must adapt to account for revolutionary A.I. technology.
Prisons and jails around the country have been banning physical mail and used book donations under the flimsy justification of stopping contraband.
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"The future of our planet depends on how we feed ourselves…and we have a responsibility to look beyond the horizon for smarter, sustainable ways to eat," says GOOD Meat's CEO.
Federal, state, and local officials will always threaten to weaponize the state against private actors they don't like. The "Kia Challenge" provides the latest example.
Greetings from the second International Conspiracy Theory Symposium, where one of the most cited findings in the field has been debunked.
The legal challenge to censorship by proxy highlights covert government manipulation of online speech.
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