'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

How Trump's Tariffs Undermine US Trustworthiness and Credibility—and What Can Be Done to Stop it

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

In search of the northern cassowary

The Newcomer

Are Autonomous Cars More Dangerous Than Uber Drivers?

Mysterious Human Relative Was Bigger Than Previously Thought

Future of giant monkey research facility uncertain, even as sanctuary plan dropped

Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Higher Morning Stress Hormone Levels

Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother

Companies’ Reporting on Race and Sex Could Come to an End

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

The Lines the Court Won’t Cross

Why the <i>Cyclospora</i> Outbreak Is Hard to Pin Down: An Intimate Encounter

Why Socialists Want to Shut Down Prisons

Why Iran Won’t Change

How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

Companies May Soon Be Able to Stop Reporting Employees’ Race

The Secret Effort to Prevent the Revolution

No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture

In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.” He had a point