Ukrainian leaders, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, are ecstatic about the work of Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft to save Ukraine from Russian conquest and even greater suffering. Zelensky has awarded each company Ukraine’s prestigious peace prize. These ...
From algorithm-based sentencing in courtrooms to self-driving cars, our society is increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence-based software to help make decisions. For all their potential benefits, AI systems can have inherent flaws and cause harmful effects, particularly on vulnerable ...
Should the law do more to punish lying about elections? Careful: Such proposals can curtail legitimate speech and give the government power it’s likely to misuse. Last term, Congress came close to passing a bill that would have prohibited individuals from knowingly deceiving others about ...
America has always had a complicated relationship with the truth. From the Vietnam War to the Iraq War, from swiftboating to birtherism to “alternative facts,” and, of course, the whitewashed versions of history being taught in our schools, truth is in the mind of the beholder. While we ...
With 44 million tons of rare earths reserves, China is the largest producer of these elements. China produced 61 percent of global rare earths in 2021. Compared to the United States’ 15.5 percent, there is a significant gap to close in the market. Although the United States, Australia and ...
Police excess gained huge attention after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and again after the alleged beating death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last month. But police excess isn’t new. A friend, who had been drinking and could be quite truculent when drunk, was severely ...