Recent A.I. Commentaries

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Who Writes This Stuff: Jim or A.I.?
With the incredible rise of artificial intelligence comes a set of questions, among them: Did the writer write the text, or did A.I.? Or… maybe a little bit of both. It’s an important question, because it goes to the heart of authorship: the difference between a writer’s voice and style, and an artificial one that may sound correct, but too...
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March 23, 2026
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Separating Fact from Rhetoric
SPECIAL REPORT  I recently received an email message from a nationwide grassroots political network. The message reads as follows: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending millions on warehouses they plan to repurpose as ICE detention ‘mega-centers’ to hold as many as 10,000 human beings per warehouse. “Draft layouts show ‘pods’ in which individuals are to be held, each...
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March 12, 2026
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Teaching an Algorithm Right from Wrong
In a quiet office in San Francisco, a philosopher is deep in thought, attempting something that until recently belonged to science fiction. She is trying to teach an algorithm the difference between right and wrong. Her name is Amanda Askell, and she works at the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic. Her assignment: help design the moral framework that guides Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude....
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March 9, 2026
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The Immaculate Contradiction
A timely Opinion piece in The New York Times by David French sheds greater light on why so many Evangelical Christians fervently believe in Donald Trump. In 1998, during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Evangelical leaders issued a public statement declaring that “character counts” and that “the President’s personal morality is not private.” The message was clear: integrity matters—especially for those who...
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April 11, 2025