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A New Form Of Life
William A. Haseltine argues in this September 15, 2026 essay that artificial intelligence constitutes a genuine second form of life…
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AI Models Need More Data About Biology, and OpenAI Is Paying to Create It
MIT Technology Review reports (September 15, 2026) that the OpenAI Foundation is funding an initiative called ‘Public Data for Health’…
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For a Century, Journalists Have Had a Voluntary Ethics Code. Editors Are Giving It an AI-Era Reboot
The Associated Press reports (September 1, 2026) that the Society of Professional Journalists is revising its Code of Ethics for…
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Op-Ed: The Expanding Mystery: What AI May Teach Us About Being Human
Virgin Islands policy strategist and community advocate Moleto A. Smith Jr. argues in this September 16, 2026 op-ed that the…
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The Insurance Industry’s Retreat From AI Threatens to Slow Innovation and Adoption
CSIS researcher Gregory C. Allen argues that insurance has become the de facto regulator of AI deployment in the United…
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Five Bellwethers for AI’s Next Disruptions
The article identifies five influential AI leaders whose work signals coming disruptions in artificial intelligence development as of mid-September 2026,…
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AI May Reverse Political Polarization. Don’t Get Excited Yet.
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Stephen Mihm explores whether artificial intelligence might help reduce America’s intense political polarization by presenting balanced information…
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The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
Gary Marcus argues that the AI industry should pause development of generative AI systems until safety concerns are adequately addressed.…
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Whose AI Will Rule The World?
Jacob Dreyer argues in Noema that China appears more culturally optimistic than the United States about AI’s future, tracing the…
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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
John Schulman of Thinking Machines, Beren Millidge of Zyphra, and Charlie O’Neill of Baseten debate on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast whether…
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Superintelligence Is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.
Cal Newport argues that while superintelligent AI remains theoretical and likely unreachable with current technology, labs’ ideological pursuit of it…
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The Questions You Should Be Asking About the AI Bubble
Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz examine whether massive AI infrastructure investment constitutes a genuine economic bubble, noting that estimates of…