When it comes to fixing the world’s worst problems, it’s easy to pretend that we’re helpless. We tell ourselves that global poverty is just too big, too distant, and too intractable an issue for us to solve. If the world could afford to solve it, or something like hunger, then surely somebody else would have […]

Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot about AI’s future. Their names were Eliezer and Yoshua.  No, I’m not talking about Eliezer Yudkowsky, who recently published a bestselling book claiming that AI is going to kill everyone, or Yoshua Bengio, the “godfather of AI” […]

Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history.  We live in homes conditioned to our ideal temperature in any season; drive vehicles that pack the power of 250 horses into a 100-square-foot metal frame; carry six-ounce rectangles that offer instant access to virtually any loved one, […]

Between the emerging details surrounding the gruesome deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, and the inflammatory remarks made in response by President Donald Trump, it’s been hard to sit and reflect on the legacy Reiner left behind as a filmmaker.  During his directorial peak in the ’80s and ’90s, Reiner built […]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today described the deadly terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach as being “motivated by Islamic State ideology.” But, this may be an understatement.  The father-and-son pair who carried out the attack on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, traveled to the Philippines last […]