An AI philosopher, the conflict and chaos in Taylor Swift’s songs and the erasure of US history from national parks
Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial
Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, Robert P Baird asked if ethicists make any difference? double quotation mark Your natural inclination is to always want to build the safest technology that takes no risks with people. But in a way that isn’t giving people credit for the risks they want to take themselves.
David Sedaris wrote about his decision to combine his need to top the leader table with his daily step count – which is how he found himself walking 10 miles a day while reading out sentences in Japanese, German, Spanish and French. double quotation mark This turned me into the person whom, since the turn of this latest century, I have most hated: one who moves about while staring down at a device. On the busy sidewalk, at the airport, everywhere a person should be paying the utmost attention to those around them, I suddenly was not.
3. ‘A sanitised view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks View image in fullscreen Yellowstone national park. Illustration: Guardian Design America’s national parks are the closest thing the country has to sacred lands. What many may not realise, however, is that US history – not just nature – is at the heart of the visitor experience at most of the 433 parks, historic sites and monuments. But over the past year and a half, this history has been under attack, with critics saying the Trump administration has been trying to reconstruct a version of US history they prefer by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands.
Amy Qin and Flávio Pessoa told looked into the story as part of our Deleted data series.
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