Prescott Valley, Arizona Correspondent — Character and temperament matter. Trump's are well known and often undisciplined. The alternative carries her own record on the border, inflation, and institutional trust, which voters are entitled to weigh too. Fitness for the office includes the capacity to drive an agenda and to challenge institutional capture. On decisiveness and … Continue reading Character, temperament, and fitness questions have been raised on both sides, alongside earlier concerns about age and capacity. How much weight should voters give these personal factors relative to policy differences?
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Will the rapid adoption of generative AI tools produce a measurable surge in productivity, or primarily displace mid-skill cognitive work?
Dayton, OH Correspondent — Both, and the historical pattern with general-purpose technology is net gains over time with significant transition costs for specific occupations. What the early studies show is interesting and not what either camp expected. The largest gains go to the least experienced workers — the tool raises the floor more than the … Continue reading Will the rapid adoption of generative AI tools produce a measurable surge in productivity, or primarily displace mid-skill cognitive work?
Is the current scale of U.S. border encounters sustainable under existing asylum and immigration law, or does it require legislative change?
Wheeling, WV Correspondent — The encounters and the backlog have exceeded the capacity of the law and the infrastructure for several years, and December is running at a record. Catch and release, multi-year waits, and asylum standards written for a different era have produced a de facto policy that neither secures a border nor processes … Continue reading Is the current scale of U.S. border encounters sustainable under existing asylum and immigration law, or does it require legislative change?
How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — If you can scrape a living writer's shelf to build a machine that competes with the shelf, that isn't a book report. Fair use was built for quotation, parody, teaching, a slice. Training a commercial model on a corpus so it can emit the style is a different industrial act, … Continue reading How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
Should large social-media platforms be required to disclose more detail about how their algorithms amplify or suppress political content?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — These platforms determine political visibility at scale, and when amplification happens through an opaque system, public accountability is nearly impossible. Requiring disclosure of the principal factors driving distribution of political material would let researchers and the public evaluate claims of bias with data instead of anecdote. At the moment every … Continue reading Should large social-media platforms be required to disclose more detail about how their algorithms amplify or suppress political content?
Is the current regulatory approach to large technology companies sufficient to address concerns about market power and data privacy?
Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — The current approach lags the reality of how these platforms operate, and the gap is widest on the data side. Existing antitrust doctrine can be applied more vigorously to mergers and exclusionary conduct. That's a question of will rather than of authority. Privacy and data portability are different — there … Continue reading Is the current regulatory approach to large technology companies sufficient to address concerns about market power and data privacy?
Should There Be Regulation On Artificial Intelligence To Prevent a “Rise Of The Machines”?
Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL August 27, 2015 Gastonia, NC Correspondent-Hawking, Musk and Gates are really smart guys, and while I’m tempted to give them credit for foresight here and get behind efforts to “pre-regulate” artificial intelligence before Skynet comes on line and starts wiping us all out, I simply can’t bring myself to buy … Continue reading Should There Be Regulation On Artificial Intelligence To Prevent a “Rise Of The Machines”?
