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America’s Superintelligence Dilemma

The article explores the challenges and ethical implications of developing superintelligent AI in the U.S., highlighting the need for careful governance and proactive measures to ensure safety.

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Culture

‘Isn’t This the Carpenter?’

“Isn’t this the carpenter?” The people of Nazareth couldn’t make sense of what they were seeing when they encountered a Jesus who healed and taught with authority. Up until that moment, recorded in Mark 6, they’d known him as a local laborer, someone you’d seek for a house project or perhaps a new tool rather Read more. The post ‘Isn’t This the Carpenter?’ appeared first on Christianity Today

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Politics

How Spain's migrant crisis is emboldening the hard right

Why are hard right politicians now flocking to the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta off the coast of Morocco? And why is Europe so spooked? After tens of thousands of migrants flocked to this northern corner of Africa, the EU has gone into emergency mode - nearly a hundred people died or drowned in an attempt to enter Spain through Ceuta. Italy has suspended free movement with Spain for a month. Other countries are suggesting they might follow suit. The government in Madrid is on the EU's naught...

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Culture

Released from Countdowns

Released from Countdowns Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping is the best American debut novel of the past fifty years, maybe the best American novel of the past fifty years, period. It’s a bold move, then, for Harriet Clark to put her own debut, The Hill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 273 pp.), in such explicit conversation with Robinson’s masterpiece. Clark borrows character names, Helen and Sylvie, from Housekeeping, and she channels the cadences of Robinson’s prose: “Say that this resurrec...

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