AI, science & society | Fact & Fiction: The Future of Democracy (Nobel Prize Dialogue Brussels 2024)

Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, joins Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, and Nobel Prize laureates Ben Feringa and Paul Nurse in a panel discussion exploring the significant implications of AI on science, society and democracy, acknowledging both its positive and negative effects. Interviewed by Maria Leptin. In …

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Minority-owned business agency discriminated against white people, federal judge says (Jessica Guynn)

Agovernment agency created five decades ago to boost the fortunes of minority-owned businesses discriminated against whites and must now serve all business owners, regardless of race, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday. Siding with white business owners who sued the Minority Business Development Agency for discrimination, Judge Mark T. Pittman of the U.S. District Court for the …

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How to Pave the Way for Diplomacy to End the War in Ukraine:

No Negotiations Yet—but It’s Time to Talk About Talking (Samuel Charap and Jeremy Shapiro) Ukraine and its Western backers have precious little common ground with Russia. Yet all the key players seem to agree on one critical issue: the war in Ukraine will end in negotiations. As Russian President Vladimir Putin told the conservative broadcaster …

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Defense Of The Middle East (Cole Bunzel)

No recent U.S. president has wanted greater military involvement in the Middle East. None has been able to avoid it. Joe Biden is now the third U.S. president in a row who sought to drawn down the U.S. military presence in the region only to find himself either stuck or drawn back in. Barack Obama …

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