T his fall, a student told me she began using generative AI only after learning that stylistic features such as em dashes ...

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, worries about danger and disruption to civilization “unless humanity wakes up.” ...

Because a public-school classroom is a cross-section of humanity. If you want to know what Arkansas is, who our people are, ...

If only there were some technology to boil things down to bullet points Opinion Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a novella-length essay about the risk of superintelligent AI, something that ...

The White House is afraid to admit the contradiction at the heart of our history: a nation that dedicated itself to human liberty also enslaved African Americans.

What if we try all kinds of things to reach all kinds of audiences with classical music without having to criticize the ways ...

AI doomerism has always been a form of self-flattery. It attributes to human beings god-like powers to create new forms of ...

Returning to a focus on speaking offers distinct benefits. It is surprising how quickly we faculty have gone from barely being aware of ChatGPT to the vague perception that it exists somewhere (but ...

A Pew Research survey showed that in late September “67 percent of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated.” Asked why, “the dominant pre-shutdown response of frustrated Democrats (41 ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by a student at Harvard. Also: Our phone choices; falling behind China on energy.

College applicants worry about sharing their race, gender and immigration status.

When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when ...