Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The backlash against data centers is the perfect opening for a popular mandate to rein in Silicon Valley.

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

Advocates for Trans Equality says a $2.4 million deficit forced painful cuts. Its union says management rejected alternatives that could have saved jobs.

Paige Cognetti, running in Pennsylvania, is one of the Democrats making the case, as one voter put it, that elections don’t need to be “between shit and diarrhea.”

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the p...

The civil rights legal organization will adopt a conservative playbook by pushing model legislation, starting in 20 states whose leaders support equality, CEO Kevin Jennings tells The Advocate.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

There's a problem for AI agents like Meta's Muse: ordinary people don't seem very interested in what they're offering.

"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon...

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Indian government issued with warning it would be in contempt of court if it failed to release Jagtar Singh Johal The British Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been released from a Delhi prison after the Indian high court warned the government it would be found in contempt of court if it continued to attempt to keep him in jail despite an 18 September court order releasing him on bail. Johal has been incarcerated for nine years without any full trial. The court order was issued after Johal’s lawyers issued a writ of habeas corpus alleging he was being detained against the express direction of the court. Continue reading...

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Commentary author John Tetpon writes of Alaska Native boarding schools: "Their charge was to completely and utterly assimilate the children."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctor’s offices and other spaces people generally consider private.

For nearly a decade, the artist Trevor Paglen has exhibited the original faces that the U.S. military used to develop facial recognition technology. Now, we’ve all become the dataset.

A Louisiana prosecutor’s decision to indict a New York doctor for mailing abortion bills calls to mind one of the ugliest chapters in this country’s history.