In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown unpack the ubiquitous sense that politicians of every stripe have abandoned a commitment to free expression. They also examine the fast evolution of artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT. 0:42: Politicians choose the culture war over the […]
It’s easy enough to find warnings that artificial intelligence (A.I.) will eventually, perhaps soon, be a threat to humankind. Those warnings have loomed in science fiction sagas for decades, from the murderous HAL 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey to the obliterating robots of the Terminator and Matrix movies. These are modern-day Frankenstein stories, in […]
Recent reports of an “automated” McDonald’s sparked some backlash: What will happen to the workers? It’s a question they could pose directly to the employees at that franchise in Fort Worth, Texas, one of whom was confused when I told her I thought I’d found the automated location. “No, not this one,” she said. As […]