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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Our global society is going through a difficult period that is producing a lot of anxiety, alienation and anger. What underlies these negative feelings is a social transition known as an inflection ...

What is behind US President Donald Trump’s bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Is it essentially personal? Is there a strategy involved? Is it ideological? Is it the first step within a ...

In Part 1, we began a discussion of the arguments developed by economist Jeffrey Sachs concerning the historical causes and geopolitical lessons to be drawn from the war in Ukraine. Sachs, like many ...