DoomsdAI
A central figure in the history of artificial intelligence, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been warning everyone for the last 20 years that building systems...
The violence that surrounds the ‘No Other Land’ detention
29 March 2025 7:21 AM ISTThere were disputes about what precisely had unfolded, as there often are; the Israeli military said Ballal had been detained on suspicion of throwing...
I wish my father, Ronald Reagan, could remind Trump what America...
10 March 2025 6:30 AM ISTLate that night, my father came in to see me. Sitting down on the bed, he commented on my early departure that evening and I apologized, although I...
Fashion has given up on being ‘woke.’ And that’s OK
8 March 2025 6:20 AM ISTEighties maximalism is elbowing aside ’90s minimalism. Sean Monahan, a trend forecaster, calls it the “boom boom” aesthetic
A publisher pulled a romance novel after criticism from early readers
7 March 2025 6:10 AM ISTCriticism of the book began to build on social media in recent days as readers who had gotten advance copies posted lines from the novel and blasted...
Memo to the business elite: It’s time to stand up
6 March 2025 6:20 AM ISTMost executives are not protectionist, isolationist or xenophobic, and shaping global treaties is not their day job. But they don’t want to be...
Recent virus research should raise alarm
5 March 2025 6:30 AM ISTWith the horrors of COVID still in our collective memory, it is important to ensure that research with pandemic potential needs the utmost...
Chinese company to single workers: Get married or get out
5 March 2025 6:00 AM ISTThat was the message that the company, Shandong Shuntian Chemical Group, sent to unmarried employees recently, in a notice that spread widely on...