A handful of current and former employees at OpenAI and other prominent artificial intelligence companies warned that the technology poses grave risks to humanity in a Tuesday letter, calling on companies to implement sweeping changes to ensure transparency and foster a culture of public debate. (Verma & Tiku, The Washington Post)
Read MoreA volunteer Southern Baptist task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination will end its work next week without a single name published on a database of abusers. (Smietana, Christianity Today)
Read MorePresident Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday (June 4) dramatically limiting the number of immigrants who may apply for asylum at the southern United States border. The policy pauses entry at the border, starting Wednesday, once 2,500 illegal entries have occurred in any 24-hour period. (Davis, Religion News Service)
Read MorePorn, violent images, illicit drugs. I could see it all by typing a special string of characters into the Safari browser’s address bar. The parental controls I had set via Apple’s Screen Time? Useless. Apple’s Screen Time has seen more bugs than a soda spill on a summer’s day. (Stern, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreX (formerly Twitter) now officially allows users to post, view and share adult nudity and sexual content under new formalized policies. Under its updated policy, Elon Musk's social media platform will allow consensually produced and distributed adult pornographic content so long as its "properly labeled and not prominently displayed." (Robledo, USA Today)
Read MoreBillions in taxpayer dollars are being used to pay tuition at religious schools throughout the country, as state voucher programs expand dramatically and the line separating public education and religion fades. (Meckler & Boorstein, The Washington Post)
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