AI In A Year Of Living Dangerously
Sizing up and getting ready for the profound—and still unknown—ways our adversaries might use artificial intelligence.
January 22, 2025 via undefined via Defining IdeasSizing up and getting ready for the profound—and still unknown—ways our adversaries might use artificial intelligence.
January 22, 2025 via undefined via Defining Ideas“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” So wrote H.L. Mencken. It will be hard to have sensible public policy as long as our fellow citizens have foggy ideas about cause and effect.
January 21, 2025 via The Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily ReportThe Chinese government is revolutionizing digital surveillance at home and exporting these technologies abroad. Do these technology transfers help recipient governments expand digital surveillance, impose internet shutdowns, filter the internet, and target repression for online content?
January 21, 2025 via Cambridge University Press via Hoover Daily ReportTen thousand different governments are responsible for election procedures in the United States. What a nutty, absurd, illogical crazy quilt of inconsistent laws and practices this is.
January 17, 2025 via The Modern Federalist via Hoover Daily ReportIn this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Gilberto Teodoro discuss the history of US-Philippine relations, defense cooperation, and security in Southeast Asia.
January 22, 2025 via undefined via Battlegrounds[I am serializing my short Harvard Law Review Forum essay titled "Free Speech and Private Power", responding to the Harvard Law Review's publication of Evelyn Douek & Genevieve Lakier's excellent new article, Lochner.com?
January 21, 2025 via Reason via Hoover Daily ReportThe bravest of all the free speech campaigners, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, speaks out eloquently on tribalism, Islam, immigration, Trump, her conversion to Christianity, and what it’s like being married to a quite well-known historian.
January 21, 2025 via undefined via Secrets of Statecraft with Andrew RobertsMorning again in America: The fallacy of neutrality.
January 21, 2025 via The Washington Times via Hoover Daily ReportIn maintaining that tens of thousands of people born in the United States are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” he is claiming that they are not subject to U.S. law. That amounts, in effect, to giving them diplomatic immunity in all but name. The reason is that if they are not subject to U.S. law, they cannot be arrested for breaking the law.
January 21, 2025 via I Blog to Differ via Hoover Daily ReportThis month marks 100 years since M. Jean Jules Jusserand left Washington, D.C. Arriving in 1903, he was French Ambassador for nearly a quarter-century, having served during the terms of five U.S. presidents.
January 22, 2025 via The Patowmack Packet via Hoover Daily ReportChristopher Meissner, professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, discussed “Did Tariffs Make American Manufacturing Great? New Evidence from the Gilded Age,” a paper co-authored with Alexander Klein from the University of Sussex.
January 15, 2025 via undefined via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson shares his insights on Donald Trump's inauguration and the transformative vision he brings to the presidency.
January 21, 2025 via GBNews via Hoover Daily Report(13:40) Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses Trump’s anti-fragile rise, the decline of woke culture, and how Ireland needs to rethink its relationship with its diaspora in this new era.
January 21, 2025 via The David McWilliams Podcast via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow John Cochrane discusses his blog post titled "Unsolicited Advice," where he discusses ideas for the Trump administration.
January 21, 2025 via Kathleen Hays Presents: Central Bank Central via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Dr. Scott Atlas talks with Britain's honorable Suella Braverman, a conservative member of the UK Parliament elected first in 2015. Her priorities include stopping small boat immigration across the English Channel, common sense policing, and safety for the British people. Suella says "you can make your life and that of others better through responsibility, self-empowerment, and service."
January 21, 2025 via The Independent with Scott Atlas via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson analyzes Joe Biden's farewell address, pointing out the hypocrisy in Biden's warnings about a new oligarchy. Hanson compares Biden's speech to Dwight D. Eisenhower's historic warning about the military-industrial complex and argues Biden lacks credibility.
January 21, 2025 via The Daily Signal via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Bjorn Lomborg analyzes President Trump’s new energy-focused executive orders.
January 21, 2025 via Fox Business via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the unjust lawfare against Trump and how it wasted Trump's time, and Trump's money as well as taxpayers' money.
January 18, 2025 via Fox News via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses Pam Bondi crushing the Democrats at her Attorney General confirmation hearing, the hypocrisy from Senator Mazie Hirono who refused to meet with her, the mistake by the left of underestimating her, and more.
January 15, 2025 via Megyn Kelly via Hoover Daily ReportFormer U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been appointed the William C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Director Condoleezza Rice underscored the importance of Sunak’s new role in advancing U.S.-U.K relations. Hoover Institution fellow John Bew, Sunak’s former foreign policy advisor, added that Sunak's appointment will amplify his ability to address 21st-century challenges.”
January 22, 2025 via The Stanford Daily via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow and former U.S. ambassador to Russia under the Obama administration, Michael McFaul, wrote on X, "You can’t be a president of peace and take back the Panama Canal."
January 22, 2025 via Reuters via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Rose Gottemoeller said, "neither Russia nor the United States has the ability to peer deeply into each other’s nuclear arsenal through the treaty’s verification mechanisms."
January 19, 2025 via Kommersant via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Matthew Khan shares his prospective economic analysis of OSHA's heat injury and illness prevention rules, stating that existing statistical literature claims to study the causal effects of heat exposure on workers, but these studies fail to account for worker heterogeneity and worker choice.
January 21, 2025 via Regulations.gov via Hoover Daily ReportHoover Institution fellow Kiron Skinner will be joining a panel on February 3 with leading experts and authors about a new report from the State of the Nation Project. The report provides a critical analysis of the United States’ status across key societal measures.
January 21, 2025 via The Brookings Institution via Hoover Daily Report
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