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Op-ed: Is it too early to assess AI?

Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Daydated July 16, arrives at a difficult time. AI is everywhere, but it is also unfinished. It is surprisingly capable in some environments and surprisingly fragile in others. It writes, summarizes, encodes, searches, predicts, discovers, recommends and…

Why the West keeps missing the point about Russia

In early June, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter to Vladimir Putin, proposing a face-to-face meeting to end a war now in its fifth year. Putin’s response was that the talks were futile unless Ukrainian forces first withdrew…

Pruning the rose delights in its bad taste

It was reading about Fred and Rosemary West that convinced me that children growing up in a troubled family can be forced to accept anything as normal. Others may take a more elevated path to a similar conclusion (Martin Heidegger…