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Great moments in unintended consequences—when something that sounds like a great idea goes horribly wrong. Watch the whole series. Part One: We Knead Dough The Year: 2019 The Problem: Restaurants aren't signing up for DoorDash. The Solution: Prove its value by adding restaurants for free—without notification or permission. Once presented with the sales data, restaurants will sign up in droves! Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? Turns out, people don't like it when you mess with their business. Restaurants that never offered delivery were sudden...
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The effective altruism (E.A.) movement, which began with the premise that philanthropists should do the most good per dollar spent, injected pragmatism into an arena where good intentions can trump rational, effective number crunching. A generation of effective altruists—many schooled in Silicon Valley thought—have since embraced this metric-driven, impartial philosophy and translated their own good intentions into good works. However, artificial intelligence (AI) exposes a flaw in the movement: a powerful faction of doomsayers. The result is not just misplaced philanthropy but lobbying to cre...
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This week's featured article is "What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave?" by Joe Bishop-Henchman. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave? appeared first on Reason.com.
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On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the hiring of 10 artificial intelligence experts as the first members of its new "AI Corps," which will eventually become a 50-member advisory group. The new hires "will help DHS responsibly leverage new technology and mitigate risks across the homeland security enterprise," a press release explained. AI shows promise for "strategic mission areas," DHS says, such as "countering fentanyl trafficking, combatting online child sexual exploitation and abuse, delivering immigration services, fortifying critical infrastructure, and enhan...
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This week's featured article is "What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel?" by Matt Welch. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel? appeared first on Reason.com.
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This week's featured article is "Government Can't Fix America's Baby Bust" by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: Government Can't Fix America's Baby Bust appeared first on Reason.com.
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Surgeon General wants warning labels for social media: We already have 'em for booze and cigarettes. So why not Instagram and TikTok? Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has a New York Times op-ed out today that calls for Congress "to require a surgeon general's warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents." Such a label would serve to "regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe." "Faced with high levels of car-accident-related deaths in the mid- to late 20th century, lawm...
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Today's technology companies are increasingly sandwiched between the regulatory requirements of the European Union (E.U.) and those of California. While the U.S. federal government may adopt a light touch, pro-innovation approach, California's state legislation can undermine this with a regulatory approach with impacts far beyond its borders. A new California bill imposes a rigorous regulatory regime on Artificial Intelligence (AI), making it the latest technology caught in this potentially innovation-stifling squeeze between Brussels and Sacramento. The term "Brussels Effect" often refers to ...
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This week's featured article is "The Mirage of China's I.P. Theft" by Richard Vigilante. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: The Mirage of China's I.P. Theft appeared first on Reason.com.
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Google's pivot to artificial intelligence has news publishers freaking out—and running to the government. "Agency intervention is necessary to stop the existential threat Google poses to original content creators," the News/Media Alliance—a major news industry trade group—wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It asked the agencies to use antitrust authority "to stop Google's latest expansion of AI Overviews," a search engine innovation that Google has been rolling out recently. Disrupting the Search Status QuoGoogle's plain old top-of-page...
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