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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POSES CHALLENGES Artifi cial intelligence’s real challenge, as Elon Musk observes in Mark Halperin’s excellent July cover story, “The Threat of AI,” is that, “It’s very much a double-edged sword. There’s a strong probability that it will make life much better . . . and there’s some chance that it goes wrong and destroys humanity.” Human labor is becoming prohibitively expensive. Industry must make the hard choice of turning to “machines” to ensure productivity remains high, business and profi ts continue to increase — all while labor costs are reduced. The very real challenge will then be to merge the activities of AI and humans — without rendering the humans irrelevant.
arthur morestto San Francisco, Calif.
Do you really want robots as your friends, teachers, or politicians? Your author asks: “Should chatbots really be writing political speeches and legal arguments and 10th-grade papers?” Is this the future you really desire? I suggest we hit the brakes on artifi cial intelligence before it’s too late. (“The Threat of AI,” July) elmo klorfen Tel Aviv, Israel
For too long we’ve let Big Tech bully and steamroller right over us. They’ve invaded our privacy and destroyed personal/customer service and other human interactions. Now artifi cial intelligence will take our jobs. Where does the madness end? AI won’t improve our quality of life, it will destroy it. Congress must enact strict guidelines on its deployment.
melinda bolsom Washington, D.C.
BIDENS LAUGH AT US Most Americans see through the mainstream media’s eff orts to take the heat off the Biden family and their shady dealings. There isn’t much else that can be done to worsen international relations that Team Biden has wrought on us, inclusive of selling us out to the highest bidder at every turn. A rebellion in Russia? Who cares? What about all the paybacks the U.S. taxpayer is making
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to pay off the “big guy’s” debts? (“‘Free-Ride’ Joe,” May)
teresa maley Brightwood, Va.
BACK TO BASICS Not only are our governments at all levels entrenched, tyrannical bureaucracies — our colleges and universities have become so as well. Your March article by David Patten points out, they’re “fl unking out of Business 101, confronting declining enrollments and a growing backlash against soaring tuition rates and elite ‘woke’ virtue signaling.” They ram their leftist agenda down the throats of unwilling conservative students, engage in antisemitism, censorship, and grub for ever-spiraling upward tuitions. Politicization, in the form of antisemitism, was extant on college campuses in 1870s Germany. The world unfortunately endured the end result, over 60 years later! Like so much in our society, colleges and universities need to get back to basics. That is — just teach! (“Elite Colleges Face Day of Reckoning,” March; “The New Antisemitism,” July) gomert feldhearn Milwaukee, Wis.
BAD Rx Dr. Laura Schlessinger suggests that parents reward children with “credits” for good behavior. That’s very bad judgment. It encourages
an outlook of associating love with money. (“Make Kids Responsible for Their Own Decisions,” June) anne p. wright Boonsboro, Md.
MALFEASANCE When the government spends more than it takes in, this is malfeasance. When the U.S. Treasury Department head fails to get spending under control, that is malfeasance. Money not spent by an agency is returned and redistributed to be spent by others. I’m sure this sort of thing happens at every level of government. (“A Government Lacking in Discipline,” May) esteban jimenez Gulf Breeze, Fla.
HONEST TRUTH Thanks to Socrates, who taught that virtue cannot be defi ned, most people are poorly informed concerning human virtue. As a result, most of us are in denial concerning honesty, the foundation and substance of all human virtues. Many people think that honesty is no more than simply telling the truth to other people. True honesty is telling the truth about yourself to yourself. We talk loftily about freedom, equality, and love. But, only true honesty, as in: "The truth will make
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