No one likes to think they're being hysterical. And nothing makes hysterical people angrier than being described as such. So, let me offer my apologies in advance for what follows. Jeremy Musighi, an independent researcher, recently released a study analyzing 14.7 million news articles ...
Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon keynoted a Washington conference to demand a stop to AI, its data centers, and the risks AI poses to jobs and even to the human species. Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs behind AI. The most potent force in American ...
Since we last visited the artificial intelligence industry in this column, a lot has happened, much of it seeming to confirm my worst fears. Seven weeks ago, I wrote about the "Hugging Face" breach, so called for the company that got hacked with no human intervention by "rogue" AI agents ...
The midterm elections are right around the corner, and both parties are about as popular as a Monday-morning visit to the DMV. The time-tested solution? Find a scapegoat, go negative, and blame the other side. This year the weaponized bogeyman is artificial intelligence. Many Americans ...
Inflation hasn't gone away — it's going up. With the midterm elections seven weeks off, that's a problem for the president and Congress. Voters hate inflation. They don't much like the cure either, and the cure has two parts. The Federal Reserve raising interest rates, like it just did, is ...
To say that I have seen a lot in my many years in and around politics would be an understatement. I even taught the subject at leading U.S. universities like the University of Virginia, Hampton University and Georgetown University for more than a decade. I remember going to my first major ...
