Over the past couple of years, New Hampshire lawmakers have taken a few stabs at regulating artificial intelligence. The National Conference of State Legislatures, which has created a database to track AI-related legislation, lists seven bills filed by New Hampshire lawmakers during the most recent session. Those proposals run the gamut from the narrow, such […]
Rick Stewart, a Libertarian running for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, said Saturday that he wants to end income taxes, overhaul the nation’s immigration policy and replace government assistance programs with a universal basic income. Stewart also called for a universal carbon tax and to “eliminate” all nuclear weapons. Stewart is running against Republican Joe Mitchell, […]
A Hollywood treatment of real-life events, “The Brink of War” gets off to an inauspicious start. The Cold War was “at its most critical point” in October 1986, reads the opening prologue card—yet one could assert that about basically any month from 1945–1991. President Ronald Reagan had announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in March 1983. Yet, Soviet objections to it surely fell short of the broadside: “The Soviet military pledges to attack before the shield can be developed.” Indeed, President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had agreed in Geneva in November 1985: “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
There is much discussion about the dangers of artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons these days. Indeed, the Vatican recently hosted a global conference on the topic that featured Nobel-prize winning scholars, experts on AI, and proponents of nuclear disarmament debating the threat.
Thursday is the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and as a society we’re still struggling with how to respond to the ability to annihilate ourselves. Ten years ago, Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, and his message was one of reflection. He spoke of the 100,000 Japanese […]
