Tag: artificial intelligence
Stevenson’s army, July 21
Several items caught my eye this week. More to come later.
– NYT had a big story — a welcome change from the usual campaign horse race stories — on Trump plans for a stronger, more assertive presidency.
– New Yorker had good interview with a law professor on how it might work.
– WSJ sees a visceral clash among Americans in the 2024 elections. Too much hate and fear.
– Anne Applebaum wonders whether Tennessee is still a democracy.
-New Yorker tells how the House Administration committee is the “traffic cop”
– House & Senate appropriators differ on foreign aid including Taiwan.
– National Security Archive has documents on the president’s nuclear “football”
– RollCall explains the administration’s new cybersecurity strategy. Here’s the document.
– SIGAT summarizes its reports on Afghanistan in reply to Senators.
– CRS has new report on covert actions and congressional notifications.
-AEI’s Kori Schake comments on NATO summit
And since ChatGBT seems capable of passing Harvard courses, I’m sticking with my oral exams.
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Stevenson’s army, June 27
– The Supreme Court has rejected the independent legislature legal theory
– Japan lifts trade restrictions with South Korea.
– Congress sets limits on ChatGBT use.
Prigozhin: CJR backgrounds his media coverage; Eliot Cohen analyzes the mutiny.
Reuters discovers large number of US officials whose ancestors had slaves.
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Stevenson’s army, June 22
– In FP, Gen. McChrystal says we have to change how we make foreign policy because of AI
– Jonathan Guyer of Vox assesses how close China and Russia are
– CFR has good background on industrial policy
– Dan Drezner criticizes a big but stupid article in NYT
– TNSR has big article on escalation management in Ukraine
– Lawfare tells how to sanction-proof a government
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Stevenson’s army, June 5
– NYT weighs the evidence on Biden’s aging.
– CNN tick tock on the debt ceiling says veterans programs helped Biden prevail.
– Tim Wu has good ideas on how the government should deal with AI.
– The Hill says Sen. Klobuchar has a way around the Tuberville hold on nominations.
– Semafor’s Ben Smith says Ukraine works hard to control the war news.
– FP writer tells of watching Russian TV all day.
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Stevenson’s army, May 5
Prigozhin is not happy with the Russian Defense Ministry:
– Several news sources say USAF Gen. Brown will be next CJCS.
– Haidt & Schmidt warn of AI’s effect on social media.
– WH has a new strategy for emerging technologies.
– SASC had open hearing with DNI and head of DIA.
– Drones over the Kremlin: Fred Kaplan thinks Ukrainians, Institute for the Study of War thinks false flag.
-WaPo says electorate is different from the population as a whole.
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Stevenson’s army, May 4
– Tom Nichols analyzes the alternative explanations for the drones over the Kremlin.
– Politico notes the disparate approaches in Congress to AI.
– WaPo shows how few days are left when key debt players are in town.
-WaPo says business and nonpartisan groups aren’t weighing in on debt ceiling.
-There’s more than we thought to US-Philippine agreement
– And look how new British election laws requiring a voter ID are helping the Tories. Neither US nor UK has a national ID card for cultural reasons. [Ours is that the NRA is a chief opponent]
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