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Elections April 18, 2023

U.S. elections official takes part in secretive GOP conference, sparking backlash

by Zachary Roth, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] April 16, 2023 A commissioner of a federal elections agency recently spoke at a…

Science and Technology April 13, 2023

Robots are everywhere – improving how they communicate with people could advance human-robot collaboration

by Ramana Vinjamuri, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information…

National March 23, 2023

In Congress, breaking unwritten rules that encouraged civility and enabled things to get done is becoming the new normal

by Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ordered an investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s…

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Health Care March 18, 2023

Why it’s hard for the US to cut or even control Medicare spending

by Dennis W. Jansen, Texas A&M University and Andrew Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] President Joe Biden’s 2024 proposed budget includes…

Science and Technology March 16, 2023

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it

by Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array…

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Georgia March 7, 2023

State GOP lawmakers not yet done fiddling with Georgia voting law in response to 2020 election

by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] March 6, 2023 Several bills that have the potential to change Georgians’ voting laws arrive…

Georgia March 6, 2023

School vouchers, election laws, gender-affirming care on agenda as lawmakers race to beat the clock

by Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] March 6, 2023 It’s crunch time under the Gold Dome. After a slow start,…

Artificial Intelligence March 1, 2023

DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can be a boon for industrial designers

by Juan Noguera, Rochester Institute of Technology, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Since the introduction of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, there has been a fair…

Justice February 28, 2023

Mocking the police got an Ohio man arrested – and the Supreme Court ignored The Onion’s plea to define the limits of parody

by Jane E. Kirtley, University of Minnesota, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Can Americans be jailed for making fun of the government? Most would respond…

Ethics February 18, 2023

Bad beliefs: Misinformation is factually wrong – but is it ethically wrong, too?

by Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The impact of disinformation and misinformation has become impossible to ignore. Whether it…

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