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How New Technology Threatens Mental Privacy
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” —George Orwell, “1984″ If science fiction has taught us anything, it is that the danger of mind reading is not…
Texas Has the Tools to Protect Health Data. Now We Just Need the Political Will.
Filled with anticipation, a woman in her early 30s downloads a fertility-tracking app. She and her husband are finally ready to start their young family and have a baby. Every morning she logs her cycle, her basal…
Age Verification for Apps
This week, Texas parents scored a massive victory when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block Texas’ landmark App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420). This decision affirms that states have every right to help families…
Texas’ app-store law is giving parents more control of kids’ phones
I recently had to explain Apple Pay to my parents. They love it now, but getting there required patience, repetition and a fair amount of starting over. We ended the way those sessions usually end, with them saying: “That’s…
The Argument for Excellence Offline
I was a pretty smart kid. Why can’t I figure this social media thing out? It’s 11:45 pm and I’ve been scrolling on my phone for hours. This is not an experience that is unique, and I imagine many of you have the same…
What the Vatican gets right, and wrong, about AI
The Catholic Magisterium has long illuminated the unbridgeable gulf between man and any other intelligent being. In the age of AI, its rejection of utility as the measure of human worth matters more than ever, even when its…
Congress should follow the Texas approach to child safety online
Big Tech is fighting this tooth and nail. But it’s the right thing. Few things have been more troubling in recent years than the unfettered social experiment of throwing children in front of black mirrors and hopping them up…
Microsoft tries to hide risks and ‘anti-Trump bias’
Paul Bradford writes for American Greatness about a major tech company’s questionable actions. Microsoft is one of the largest tech providers for the American government. That’s in spite of the company’s cozy ties with China…
You Should Break Up with Your AI Boyfriend
You should break up with your boyfriend. Not your real, human boyfriend—your AI boyfriend. Recent media coverage and cultural moments have brought renewed attention to how people are forming relationships with artificial…
Alpha School isn’t an ‘AI story.’ It’s a structural indictment—and employers/HR should pay attention
Alpha School’s “AI education shakeup” is really a warning to employers: the fastest way to outperform isn’t smarter tech—it’s removing the soul-crushing compliance load that keeps humans from owning the mission. Alpha School…
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