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The Missing AI Conversation

J.P. McJefferson Thoughts J.P. McJefferson Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most discussed technologies of our time. Governments around the world are debating regulations. Legislatures are holding hearings. Experts are proposing safeguards. Companies are publishing ethical principles. Yet amid all this activity, one critical issue receives surprisingly little public attention: AI is a […]

$Trillions for Tax Breaks, etc. to the wealthy. But we Can Not Fund Social Security?

“No Unauthorized Spending: The U.S. Constitution dictates that no money can be drawn from the Treasury except through an act of appropriation. Without a funded budget, paying wages is unconstitutional.” “Office Hours: How Do We Deal with the Inevitable Loss of Good Jobs to AI?” Anthropic — the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude […]

The Tariff Reckoning Comes Due

I thought this would be interesting now as compared to a month ago when David Zetland posted on AI. David’s experiment with AI is a comparison to an earlier commentary by him. Both his and AI’s commentary: “AI’s impacts on learning” can be found at the link. David start’s off by asking a question of […]