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.
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.
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.
When anxieties are rippling through the culture, novelists can’t help picking up the signal.
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.
Forsaking one’s native country for another place can create an odd mix of new and old identities.
The protests. The raised fists and raised voices.
Isaac Asimov’s work is foundational to much of modern AI. But his robots were programmed to be truthful, and the programming mostly worked.
Book bans are about both control and terror.
“There are things we can do, but reducing your carbon footprint, while good, is not what will make the biggest difference.”
History will likely list 2023 as transformative in Israeli politics.
Is killing Jews “the right thing” to do? The Polish government seems to believe it is.
AI has a myriad of applications, ranging from medical to legal to Jewish.