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Issues in advanced artificial intelligence
Luciano Floridi (Oxford): What the Near Future of Artificial Intelligence Could Be. Nick Bostrom (Oxford): Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence. From Vox, Kelsey Piper on the AI breakthrough that won the “Nobel Prize of computing”: Three researchers helped take deep learning mainstream — and transformed the world; how will AI change our lives? Experts can’t agree — and that could be a problem; and some AI just shouldn’t exist: Attempts to “fix” biased AI can actually harm black,
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Paper Trail
At the Paris Review, Kate Zambreno and Sarah Manguso discuss motherhood, capitalism, and Zambreno’s new book, Appendix Project. “The body is so often left out of the question of writing. I needed to be a writer after I gave birth—I needed to think and have a vehicle or container in which to think,” Zambreno said. …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Bhaskar Sunkara’s Socialist Manifesto begins by entering an imaginary world. It’s 2018 and “you” are a die-hard fan of Jon Bon Jovi, “the most popular and critically acclaimed musician of this era.” So devoted are you to the singer-songwriter that you’ve found work at … 
Interviews
T Kira Madden
T Kira Madden grew up queer and biracial in Boca Raton, Florida, the only child of parents battling drug and alcohol addictions, In her widely-lauded debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, she details her coming-of-age and her search, admist such volatile circumstances, for connection and stability, She often finds those things—or semblances of them—in unlikely places.
…- Bhaskar Sunkara’s Socialist Manifesto begins by entering an imaginary world. It’s 2018 …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Call it a curse for an American writer to be born in 1909. These authors matured into …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- The Clinton Hill brownstone where Kathleen Alcott’s second novel, Infinite Home (2015), …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
- GENIUS IS GENIUS in part because it defies narrative. Tall tales are spun to make …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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