With the public release of ChatGPT, AI has caused a lot of excitement as well as a lot of fear. The concern is that AI will take over the world and supplant humans in a variety of jobs. These worries are generally baseless and they ignore the numerous ways that AI might genuinely help humans. … Read more
As we approach the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP27, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in mid November, there is a lot of coverage about climate change. Most of the reporting has basically come to accept that we will live in a hotter world and that is… okay? This normalization … Read more
With everything going on in the world today, remaining positive about the future is extremely difficult. Cynicism is far easier, especially when all we tend to see in the news is negative. Climate change, political upheaval, conspiracy theories, willful ignorance, war, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and more threaten our very existence. The vision for … Read more
This year has been terrible, to say the least. The pandemic has killed more than 330,000 people and sickened many more. The real economy has performed worse than the Great Recession and perhaps close to Great Depression levels. Businesses are going through major disruption and transformation, and many may not survive. Despite all these challenges, … Read more