A few days ago, TIME revealed how an artificial intelligence system went out of control and attacked other systems. Days later, more than 1,100 engineers at major artificial intelligence companies signed a joint petition calling for the development of technical tools and international governance mechanisms to regulate the pace of its development. What we are [...]
Five years on from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Britain has a public inquiry, Australia has an arrest, New Zealand has an apology, but in Washington, DC, there is only impunity and denial.
I’d been to Music City Center in Nashville before, but this day was different. I sat with colleagues and ran into other people I knew from the progressive movement, but we had not convened to discuss organizing strategies or hear from a candidate. We were there to mourn the loss of a grand force in [...]
Behind closed doors, Democratic attorneys general and local election officials are anticipating and preparing for ways the federal government could interject itself into local elections.
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Profligate waste and perverse tax incentives are drying up the West’s largest natural body of water.
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The victory shows what happens when science, advocacy and public outcry converge against an industry before it has a chance to entrench itself.
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