American businesses have long practiced what political scientists call regulatory capture. A company that cannot repeal a law takes control of the people the government put in charge of enforcing it. The airlines did it to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which in 40 years never approved a new ...
Cell phones made my life easier. So did the internet. Artificial intelligence may enrich it even more. But lots of people are worried. "Stop AI or we're all going to die!" shout protesters. It's possible that AI will decide that we humans are in the way and imprison us or kill us. Not likely, say AI specialists, but possible. Anthropic's CEO just warned that AI is advancing faster than our ability to control it. He and other AI executives say they want to slow it down. He proposes embedding independent "evaluators" inside his company to assess risks. He also wants ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dak Prescott threw four touchdown passes to break Tony Romo's career franchise record, and the Dallas Cowboys beat Washington 37-20 on Sunday after the Commanders' Jayden Daniels went down with another gruesome-looking injury to the left elbow he dislocated last ...
The midterm elections are right around the corner, and both parties are about as popular as a Monday-morning visit to the DMV. The time-tested solution? Find a scapegoat, go negative, and blame the other side. This year the weaponized bogeyman is artificial intelligence. Many Americans are falling for the anti-AI information operation. They shouldn't. A new poll from Politico has the grisly details: 63% of Americans think AI has the potential to "destroy humanity." A majority of both Democrats and Republicans now think AI could herald the apocalypse. That's quite a sea change ...
Go ahead, President Donald Trump, keep the Kennedy Center closed. Don't give it money for necessary repairs. This is low-hanging fruit for Americans done with your extortion schemes. They don't have to submit to small-bore intimidation like this. They can just shrug at the demand that your name, with words of gratitude, be placed on the building's facade. To use a different metaphor, they have bigger fish to fry. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is suffering serious structural damage. Some believe the Washington cultural center can remain open while necessary repairs ...
