In an age of heated polarization of it will be difficult for politicians to convince their opponents that damaging videos are in fact deepfakes.
We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers.
I left identity politics activism — and learned hard lessons about groupthink, moral certainty, and what happens when ideology becomes your whole identity.
The two processes may begin similarly, but in grooming gangs emotional manipulation very quickly progresses to rape, torture, and threats of murder.
People on social media hurried to declare that they would never again spend a penny at Ristretto and were rewarded with approval from like-minded peers.
In this media culture is the implicit notion that gay people are monolithic, that they have no individual capacity to reason or hold different values.
China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms.
As revealed in the documentary, this view takes an emotional toll on dark women, who are discriminated against in all sorts of ways.
When a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense and quicker backlash.
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
All of us hope to enjoy our lives, of course, but much of what we do to help our fellow men, our children, and our children’s children involves sacrificing our immediate enjoyment for the sake of their interests.