Problematic military resignations, plus apparently unwarranted firings, usher jeopardies to the U.S., ...and the planet

In an essay, the Microsoft co-founder sounds the alarm about artificial intelligence’s risks to safety and security, jobs and children’s well-being. The Essay

Listen to earlier interview with Dolly on NPR's Fresh Air Related Listen: from her home town folks today Listen: More from The Forum Related post earlier today

Wharton’s Americus Reed II explains why identity permission — the willingness to make a brand part of how we see ourselves — is increasingly important for marketers in the age of AI.

It wasn’t about showbiz. It was about sovereignty. Related Photos From an Extraordinary Life and Career

Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.

“Debate” almost never corresponds to mappable arguments. The simplest “solve debate” proposal is the argument map. Some technology helps people decompose arguments into premises and conclusions, then lets skeptics point out where the premises are wrong, or where the conclusion doesn’t follow from the premise.

The university will survive AI. That doesn’t mean we’ll like what it turns into.

Sellers are enjoying a jump in sales but fretting over whether irreplaceable books are being ‘sent to the guillotine’ to train models

The printing press gave us objective truth. Social media made truth tribal again. AI could make it something else entirely. Truth becomes situational, relative, negotiated, and tribal again.

DM Good morning! I've this chronically nagging (paradox?) that persistently rumbles and rambles within my mind (and has been for years!). I'll pose it first as a "three element question:" Why do human organizations (and subset, businesses) seek to ignore, or consider, the constructs and competencies of "philosophies," "relationships" and "communities" as not being relevant to their existence, attention, strategies and purposes? These each, and all, to me seem so crucial,

Medicare codified and expanded payment for medically necessary dental services that are linked to covered medical care.

College no longer feels like a good deal for high-school graduates, so they are heading straight into the workforce

An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.

Fareed's Take, ...after seeing "The Odyssey." (with purple ball caps?)

The finalist selections for this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition were just announced by the organizers at Oceanographic Magazine, featuring some of the best coastal, drone, and underwater photographs chosen from thousands of submissions.

Americans are more pessimistic than ever about the value of a degree—but enrollment keeps going up. Distantly related: Go Ahead, Sean Duffy. Let Your Daughter Go to Harvard.

The Rhine, the Rhône and the Po rivers all have their sources in the Alps. Each has shaped a nation’s history.

DM What is the historic and present meanings within human life, ...and perhaps across all life, of the term, "soul?" This is a question worth doing properly — the word carries millennia of freight across religion, philosophy, biology, and now the strange new context of minds we're building. I won't try to answer it from the top of my head; that would be its own kind of hubris. Let me research it. I'll cast a wide net: etymology and the ancient Near East, the Greek and biblica

In his most influential work, the Scots thinker united a set of economic precepts into a vision of human flourishing.