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Dr. Walter Greason explains to The Root why Biden's honesty is a pivotal moment for Americans.

We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we’re doing Bard.

The web has long been full of spammy content. AI is on the verge of making it much worse.

Professor Mark Paul explains how to fix America.

YouGov America released a survey of 20,810 American adults. … 46% say that they are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about the possibility that AI will cause the end of the human race on Earth … There do not seem to be meaningful differences by region, gender, or political party. Younger people seem more concerned than older people.… Furthermore, 69% of Americans appear to support a six-month pause in "some kinds of AI development". (

Michael Hiltzik: Column: America’s Decline in Life Expectancy Speaks Volumes About Our Problems Most developed countries have begun to recover the longevity losses they experienced during the pandemic; thus far, there’s scant evidence that the U.S. is following the trend. The U.S. suffered a greater rise

Posted on Friday 12 May 2023. 748 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Republican gun fetishism has forced us to normalize mass shootings.

Status means everything to platforms like Twitter and Facebook. But contrary to what Elon Musk thinks, it doesn’t come from a blue checkmark.

From a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia to a repair shop in Mississippi, the story of a tire highlights the turmoil of the post-pandemic economy and its uncertain future.

The last time I wrote about settlement speed was back in 2017. In that article I published a chart of the history of U.S. securities settle...

The contemporary 20th century belief in American Exceptionalism is bi-partisan, trans-historical, and contested. The debate is simultaneously about origin stories, the implications for who is imagi…

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The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means a forgone conclusion. Instead, we got here through a series of conscious actions by big businesses and lawmakers that put antitrust law into a 40-year coma....

We spoke with MIT's David Autor, one of the top labor economists in the world, about how AI could revolutionize the job market.

How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a green-energy breakthrough pulled off a massive scam

The right to repair movement doesn't go far enough. Here's how designers could make products more repairable from the start.

We want to see the monarchy abolished and the King replaced with an elected, democratic head of state. In place of the King we want someone chosen by the people, not running the government but representing the nation independently of our politicians. An elected, effective head of state. The monarchy is wrong in principle, it's bad for British politics and it falls well short of the standards we should expect of public institutions.

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It's 2023. How is this possibly still a thing?

What is this thing we’re trying to be?