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Podcaster wrong to discourage kids from studying coding

Reality TV and podcast star Jack Osbourne recently said that if one of his kids said they wanted to go to school to be a coder, he would tell them not to and instead to “learn to be a carpenter or a tiler or a framer or something if you want to be creative because AI can’t do that.” ...

Opinion: IRS must be called out for its abuses

Because of a lack of accountability dating back decades, the Internal Revenue Service has become a corrupt and dysfunctional shell of its former self. It has lost the ability and the moral authority to enforce the Internal Revenue Code. I know this because, unfortunately, I had a front-row ...

The cheapening of the impeachment process

Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British statesman, argued during the celebrated impeachment of Warren Hastings, the governor of Bengal, that impeachment was essentially a political process, not a judicial one. Quite so. The political dimension of impeachment is again on display in Washington, ...

Mission possible — control AI

Artificial intelligence comes alive in this summer’s “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.” The film shows — spoiler alert — an advanced AI system turning against humans, launching weapons and manipulating devices in undetectable ways. One of the most disturbing tricks of the ...