Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?
By Aaron M. Bornstein Nautilus Dimitry Malioutov can’t say much about what he built. As a research scientist at IBM, Malioutov spends part of his time building machine learning systems […]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
The Law School Scam
By Oliver Bateman The Atlantic The Charlotte School of Law may not be able to outrun the latest—and most damning—chapter of its at-times-scandalous existence. For years, the for-profit school was […]
Murderous Manila
By James Fenton The New York Review of Books One night in December, I was standing in heavy rain, under an umbrella, in a dark Manila alleyway, outside a house […]
Women vs. Machines
By Erika Hayasaki Foreign Policy It started as a seemingly sweet Twitter chatbot. Modeled after a millennial, it awakened on the internet from behind a pixelated image of a full-lipped young female […]
This is Your Brain on Poverty
By Karen Weese Pacific Standard Dr. Bryan Bledsoe was just trying to keep up. The emergency room at his small county hospital was always packed and the top brass had […]
Why the Copenhagen Zoo Shot a Healthy Young Giraffe, Dissected it in Public, and Fed its Remains to Lions
By Ian Parker The New Yorker In 2014, not long after Marius, the giraffe, was shot in Copenhagen, a British zoo professional had a conversation with Bengt Holst, the Copenhagen […]
The Roots of Russia’s Political Appeal in Europe and the United States
By Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic Donald Trump is practically alone in mainstream American politics in his consistent praise of Vladimir Putin and insistence that the United States would benefit from […]
How to Proceed if the TPP Is Dead
By Michael Auslin Foreign Affairs Days before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, there are few that hold out hope for the survival of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Outgoing U.S. […]
The Lawless Trons of Cyberspace
By Travis Nicks Center for International Maritime Security Open borders are here. You likely crossed the Rio Grande before breakfast this morning and you’ll sneak into China before you sleep […]
