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There are striking resemblances between secular and Orthodox Jewish oppositions to AI: Both insist that hard work is its own reward, and despise the way AI destroys the capacity for human cognition.
What's at stake in Brazil's runoff election this Sunday? A Bolsonaro win would give unprecedented power to the far right at two of the three top branches of Brazil’s government—and the next president will have the power to name at least four new justices to the Supreme Court, the
Should a scientific publication publish political opinions? For some staffers at Scientific American, the answer was a clear yes. But when Trump threatened to revoke federal subscriptions to scientific journals that expressed political opinions, the magazine’s corporate ownership
The lesson for the United States is that power gets consolidated in stages, and every stage that’s blocked makes the next stage easier to prevent. Legal challenges are essential, but so are the actions of ordinary citizens. For example, Indivisible and No Kings have been