The safety impacts of artificial intelligence are here, are real and are often very personal. Innocent teenagers are being blackmailed with their faces inserted into photo-realistic pornography. Terrified grandparents are sending tens of thousands of dollars to “virtual kidnappers” who use AI to fake the voices of family members using snippets of audio from social […]
Proposition 12, the California meat restriction law, is proving to be costly for not only Iowa pig farmers but also for California consumers. I am glad to see the U.S. House Agriculture Committee taking steps in its farm bill proposal to protect producers from a patchwork of state laws like this. I am a farmer […]
Making criminals out of legal gun owners Here we go again with yet another misguided gun control law. Senate Bill 1160 would require yearly gun registration, supposedly for better understanding of who has lawfully owned firearms. Really, it is a law to collect more fees, possibly to make up for the state’s lack of fiscal […]
Apple is coming out swinging against the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case, just announced Thursday, which accuses the iPhone maker of being a monopolist with its thumb on a mobile chokepoint of its own making. Apple is dubbing the litigation misguided and warning the DOJ risks trashing all the things its customers value about […]
Charlotte Church said it is “misguided” to draw an inference of antisemitism from a pro-Palestinian chant she sang. The Welsh singer, 38, said she had experienced a “really uncomfortable day” as she faced a backlash for leading a choir in a rendition of From The River To The Sea at the Sing For Palestine fundraising […]
Paul Krugman.Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press/Getty Images US consumer optimism is surging, and may reflect the stock market outperformance, Paul Krugman wrote. But stocks aren’t a good indicator of future economic health, and should be ignored. Americans give outsized attention to equities due to the market’s high visibility. With stock bullishness swinging indexes towards new highs, consumers […]
An iconic chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, inspired countless Native American children as a powerful but humble leader who expanded early education and rural healthcare. Her reach is now broadening with a quintessential American honor: a Barbie doll in Ms. Mankiller’s likeness as part of toymaker Mattel’s “Inspiring Women” series. A public ceremony […]
An iconic chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, inspired countless Native American children as a powerful but humble leader who expanded early education and rural healthcare. Her reach is now broadening with a quintessential American honor: a Barbie doll in Ms. Mankiller’s likeness as part of toymaker Mattel’s “Inspiring Women” series. A public ceremony […]