Jorge Mario Bergoglio — Pope Francis — went home to face his Lord on the morning of Easter Monday, after 12 years on St. Peter’s throne, at the age of 88. From the start of his pontificate, Francis ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons” and produces discourse that not only appears to be what a human could produce but coherently aligns facts, logic and ...

In my previous column bearing the title, “AI Tries, Fails and Unwittingly Succeeds at Poetry,” I engaged ChatGPT in a discussion of AI’s capacity to produce poetry. I suggested that an LLM was capable ...

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them. And some others encircle the world, dominate the chessboard, scandalize a nation or just plain terrify ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT with two goals: to better understand how AI “reasons” and to use its capacity to better understand how we humans reason. There’s a big difference, which ...

Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both ...

At the end of the former’s administration, US President Joe Biden and then-President-Elect Donald Trump worked together to end the Israel–Hezbollah war in Lebanon, setting the country on a path toward ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations.

[This is a response to the piece “On Women’s New ‘Right’ to Have ‘Sex Like Men, ” which Rahul Sur published in Fair Observer on December 17, 2023.] After more than half a century of the sexual ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. A ...

In the wake of a broader insurgency movement, the militant group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has intensified its attacks against Pakistan’s government and security forces. On March 11, BLA ...

Over the years, China has strategically broadened its soft power initiatives in Indonesia across multiple sectors, including education, media, religion and economic development. Through scholarships, ...