Claude works like a person because it was trained on what people have done. Its greatest source of danger is that it could amplify the most dangerous parts of us.
Nathan Schneider
Nathan Schneider is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life and God in Proof: The Story of a Search From the Ancients to the Internet.
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Mary’s death in Christian art: Remembering her as more than a mother
When we honor Mary the mother, the moon who shines by the light of her son, we should also remember that her soul shone with its own light, too.
Posted inFeatures
Questioning A.I.
A.I. is killing the skill of asking meaningful questions. We shouldn’t let it.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump, Elon Musk and the dangers of ‘god mode’ tech powers in government
DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The battle between universities and Trump is on
Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Poverty should not make a good life impossible
While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the lives of the poor tolerable.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What democracy demands of citizens under Trump
“If democracy is under threat from authoritarian urges, it is time to rediscover and reorganize our mutual obedience.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Republican or Democrat: Don’t make an idol of political parties
As we head into this election season, consider how you can ground yourself in a politics bigger than the idolatry of parties or politicians.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Dudes thinking big thoughts: Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and the lure of the rabbit hole
After B-list careers in their primary professions, these men have found their callings in the earbuds of the young.
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The trouble with ‘gender ideology’
Can we learn to see gender in its real complexity?