From the Newsletter | Moment Wins First Place from Religion News Association!
We won first place in Magazine Overall Excellence for our AI issue and for commentary by Amy E. Schwartz.
The Conversation
As always, you’ve put together a very diverse and thoughtful group of Jewish opinions on the state of the State of Israel.
‘Not Very Pleasant’
For years, a one-dimensional view of Israel has poisoned the environment for Jews in Britain’s national students’ union. After an official investigation, will the situation improve?
Comic | Learning to Dance with AI
For the past seven years, I’ve been writing and drawing a book about Artificial Intelligence, specifically about a large language model built from a family archive.
Is Artificial Intelligence Good for Humanity?
AI is the brainchild of cognitive scientists, computer programmers and physicists; it raises problems for politicians, journalists and philosophers; and it’s alive in the imaginations of artists, cartoonists and science fiction writers. We’ve asked people from all these fields how best to approach this astounding moment in human history.
Talk of the Table | A Chat with ChefGPT
It was with some trepidation that we decided to bring the matter of food to the great AI Oz.
Ask the Rabbis | What Impact Will Artificial Intelligence Have On People’s Spiritual Lives?
Artificial intelligence has been around ever since we plucked the fruit off the branch of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and came away with clarity around neither.
Jewish Word | Beware the Fires of Moloch
In 2012, days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults, historian Garry Wills wrote an impassioned essay in The New York Review of Books.
Roundtable | Robots Get Religion
In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but it’s nothing—at least, as yet—compared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination.
Partly Cloudy Reads for Your Beach Bag
When anxieties are rippling through the culture, novelists can’t help picking up the signal.
Book Review | The Truth Only Fiction Can Touch
After Italian philosopher Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose (1980), to worldwide critical acclaim and instant bestsellerdom, scores of major humanities scholars started thinking about fiction as a possible genre for them too.