ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Berhanu Anteneh At the AI Action Summit in Paris, Yann LeCun underscored a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence—one that moves beyond the brute-force approach of large language models (LLMs). Instead of systems that merely predict the next token, the future of AI hinges on *world models*—structured, adaptive representations that can infer, reason, and plan. This vision holds …
Yann LeCun, Meta, gives the AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings on “Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI.” This talk was introduced by Bryna Kra, Northwestern University, President of the AMS. Watch the Video here.
The United States of America Intelligence Agencies 2025 Treat Assessment Report to Congress. Watch the Video here.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing agencies to suspend the security clearances and access to federal buildings of lawyers for the law firm Wilmer Hale, the former firm to one time-special counsel Robert Mueller. The order also directs agencies to “refrain from hiring employees” of the firm without a waiver from an …
The past few months have been grueling for America’s art and music institutions, which have come under threat as President Donald Trump takes aim at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the country. Following Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – and its subsequent cascade of program and artist cancellations following …
Although a certain amount of deceit will always play a partin human affairs, a basic intent to be truthful, along with anassumption that most people can be taken at their word, isrequired for any decent society. No civilization can toleratea constant expectation of dishonest communication withoutfalling apart from a breakdown in trust. Yet, in our …
Accomplishments over the 20 years. Watch the Video here.
Scientists, policy makers, and ordinary people prepare for profound change amid countless unknowns. This excerpt from the new issue of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) focuses on artificial intelligence, one of ten key technologies studied in this continuing educational initiative. SETR, a project of the Hoover Institution and the Stanford School of Engineering, harnesses the expertise of Stanford University’s leading …
The Economist has a fantastic article on aid. (The Economist doesn’t have bylines. Henry Curr tweeted the article (x’d it?) and credits Cerian Jones.) At half the dinners I go to, someone says, well, yes, a lot of the USAID money was mis-spent, but what about the poor starving children in Africa? If you are in that situation, this is the …
All wars must end, and the Russo-Ukrainian war is not an exception to the rule. In fact, there is growing interest, most visibly in the United States, to see an end to this conflict, which started in 2014 with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and parts of Eastern Ukraine, and then escalated further in 2022 with …