Bernie Sanders and AI whistleblowers warn that AI poses grave risks to humanity, while many on the Left call this alarm “criti-hype” — an exaggeration that benefits Big Tech. But AI poses real dangers that we can’t afford to ignore.
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AI is fundamentally changing everything from how we do good and important public health and health care work to how we develop biosurveillance systems that keep pace with the rapid escalation of capabilities enabled by this technology.
The reluctance of later administrations to repudiate Bush-era torture and endless detention laid the groundwork for recent violence
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister who has sweeping powers over Israeli rule in the West Bank, defines Israel's plan as the Decisive Plan. In Hebrew, the word he uses — “hachra’ah” — carries a stronger political meaning than “decisive.”
TPM’s investigation reveals that Rawson’s campaign got a boost from members of the very groups that marched in Charlottesville nine years ago. His campaign donations show he received funds from people with ties to white nationalist organizations.
A quarter of Berlin residents will have no say in the German capital's city-state election because they lack citizenship. That's the highest proportion of residents excluded from the election yet, and many are unhappy.
Donald Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun. So are the devastating toll of a decade of severe U.S.-imposed sanctions
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Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this large while real prices fell. The difference between then and now? Deregulated markets.
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