In this Q&A, Brown University Associate Professor of Literary Arts Karan Mahajan discusses his forthcoming novel, teaching ...
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Before Africans could be enslaved at scale, they first had to be portrayed as living outside the timeline of civilization itself. This narrative—the pre-story of slavery—made domination appear not ...
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AI danger gets real

No wonder that, as AI grows rapidly more powerful, experts in the field are gloomily predicting a catastrophe. Some warn of a “Chernobyl moment”: the use of AI that leads to a disaster which causes ...
Imagine a student who feels sad after losing a basketball game. Their best friend sits next to them, quietly offering a kind ...
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
Even before Trump’s pronouncement targeting Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI had raced to fill the void and fulfill the vendor’s lucrative military contracts by agreeing their products could be used in “all ...
Parents in China are turning to A.I. chatbots and other tools to help their children gain an edge and ease the fighting over ...
From the "Ghost GDP" to mass layoffs at tech companies, this was the week AI's new collar economy took full effect.
Ancient doctors were interested in what people who lived long lives were doing every day and how this might have helped. The ...
Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life. Greeks and Romans ...
Today, only a small number of humans possess the technical capacities and materials necessary for engineering a supervirus.