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Does AI deserve human rights?

You can't be cruel to a toaster; inanimate objects don't feel pain. You can't be cruel to a computer program, either, even if programs like Microsoft Word often seem pretty cruel to us. Yet the artificial intelligence company Anthropic insists its product is different: Starting next month, users will be prohibited from "sustained and needless cruel and abusive behavior" toward Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude. Giving the machine a name was cute -- giving it human rights isn't. What Anthropic's leaders are up to is an attack on human dignity, and the anti-cruelty policy is part of ...

Rubio shines while speaking in Greece

Back in my college days (American University, Washington, D.C.), required reading included the works of Greek playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Long after graduation they remained on my bookshelf. It was believed for generations that these men, along with philosophers Plato, ...

Canadiens top Sabres 4-3 in shootout

MONTREAL (AP) — Zachary Bolduc scored the decisive goal in a shootout for the second straight game, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 after blowing a two-goal lead Tuesday night. Lane Hutson and Cole Caufield each had a goal and an assist for Montreal. Josh Anderson also scored, and Juraj Slafkovsky added two assists. Jacob Fowler made 14 saves in his third consecutive start after stopping 30 shots in Saturday's 1-0 win over Detroit, which was decided by Bolduc's goal in the sixth shootout round. Olen Zellweger had two goals and Josh Norris also scored for ...

Stop the hysteria, drama over Flock cameras

In the bad old crime days of New York City, I spent a Christmas Eve waiting outside an emergency room. Our foursome had been violently robbed in a subway station, and I was eager for the doctor's report on one member who'd suffered a concussion fighting off a mugger. Because someone got ...

Republicans may not lose the Senate

CNN's data analyst Harry Enten said something interesting last week. He said Republicans have a stubborn habit of outperforming their September polling in the states that decide control of the Senate. He is right, and reiterated a point I have been making for some time that leads me to believe ...