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  • Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023. The committee held an oversight hearing to examine AI, focusing on rules for artificial intelligence.
    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023. The committee held an oversight hearing to examine AI, focusing on rules for artificial intelligence.
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    The Cyborgs Go to Washington

    Who really benefits from the fearmongering calls for AI regulation?

    byHirsh Chitkara
  • Flames close in on cars parked along a country road at the Blue Cut Fire, Wrightwood, California, in August 2016.
    Flames close in on cars parked along a country road at the Blue Cut Fire, Wrightwood, California, in August 2016.
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    The End of the World Is Coming, and You Are Responsible

    New climate-change narratives ordain humans with godly powers to undo and repair the planet. Is it science, or a new religion?

    bySean Cooper
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    (s shepherd/Flickr)
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    Nathaniel Rich’s Apocalypse

    The New York of the young novelist’s vividly imagined Odds Against Tomorrow looks an awful lot like us

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Muslim demonstrators at the Danish Embassy on February 3, 2006 in London.(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
    Muslim demonstrators at the Danish Embassy on February 3, 2006 in London.(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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    Final Battle

    Muslim apocalyptic movements like al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other jihadi groups are winning an information war that the West barely recognizes exists

    byRichard Landes
  • Islamic end-of-days pulp novels.(Collage from Apocalypse in Islam by Jean-Pierre Filliu (University of California Press, 2011))
    Islamic end-of-days pulp novels.(Collage from Apocalypse in Islam by Jean-Pierre Filliu (University of California Press, 2011))
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    Pulp Fictions

    A top Obama Afghanistan adviser reviews a new book examining the end-of-days pulp novels popular in the Islamic world, potboilers that mix Western science-fiction tropes with classic anti-Semitism

    byBruce Riedel
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