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Future shock: Is this Team Humanity’s last chance to stand up to AI?

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 ...

Any jury trial problems unfixable?

This is not another opinion article about Lindsay Clancy. Well, not really. I'm not qualified to discuss the woman's actions or the validity of her insanity defense in a murder trial for several million reasons at least. I've learned over the last few weeks that I'm one of the 10 people ...

Five tests of American restraint

Five seemingly unrelated developments -- the Supreme Court's intervention in mail-in ballot rules, a federal judge's decision affecting foreign students and journalists, the blockade threatening Saudi Arabia, an unusual alliance in Michigan politics, and the accelerating power of artificial ...

Women keep politics honest

This is a generalization, I know. As Mark Twain is said to have said, "All generalizations are false, including this one." But there is growing evidence that women tend to be more protective of our American democracy than men. They are more willing to put their foot down when partisan ...

Trump’s scenes under the summer sun

WASHINGTON -- First came the murder of the Kennedy Rose Garden. That was just a prelude for the killer in the Oval Office. His next victim is likely the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the arts heartbeat of the capital and the nation. Symphony, opera, theater and ballet ...

Americans are right: Inflation is not just the Fed’s problem

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 ...