In the wake of a broader insurgency movement, the militant group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has intensified its attacks against Pakistan’s government and security forces. On March 11, BLA ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT with two goals: to better understand how AI “reasons” and to use its capacity to better understand how we humans reason. There’s a big difference, which ...

[This short story traces an imaginary future history of the US.] The “United States of America” lasted 12 centuries, although it has long been based primarily in Europe. Today, the last US president, ...

[This is a response to the piece “On Women’s New ‘Right’ to Have ‘Sex Like Men, ” which Rahul Sur published in Fair Observer on December 17, 2023.] After more than half a century of the sexual ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. A ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations.

Your pushback is exactly why AI—if it is to be useful for dialogue—must be careful not to adopt establishment framings as default truths. My initial response showed a bias toward prevailing Western ...

The latest and most exciting development in artificial intelligence is the set of technologies broadly dubbed as generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”). At the core of GenAI are large language ...

Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers — Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General ...

The most shocking scandal to date of the two-month-old administration of US President Donald Trump broke this week when Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, revealed that he had been ...

Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both ...

At the end of the former’s administration, US President Joe Biden and then-President-Elect Donald Trump worked together to end the Israel–Hezbollah war in Lebanon, setting the country on a path toward ...