While the AI landscape lacks the bloody tent-peg violence of the Book of Judges, it is marked by similar confusion, conflict, and lack of consensus (4:21; 21:25). AI companies and users are doing what is right in their own eyes. Engineers, lawmakers, lobbyists, critics, and consumers operate as if they were living in one house but in separate rooms with the doors shut. (Carradini, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThe Australian government announced YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16-years-old from December, reversing a position taken months ago on the popular video-sharing service. (McGuirk, AP News)
Read MoreIn the once Catholic-dominated province of Quebec… many churches that have been deconsecrated and transformed into everything from gyms, restaurants and museums to luxury apartments, auction houses and a university reading room. (Henao, AP News)
Read MoreFAFO (often pronounced “faff-oh”) is based on the idea that parents can ask and warn, but if a child breaks the rules, mom and dad aren’t standing in the way of the repercussions. Won’t bring your raincoat? Walk home in the downpour. Didn’t feel like having lasagna for dinner? Survive until breakfast. Left your toy on the floor again? Go find it in the trash under the lasagna you didn’t eat. (Gamerman, The Wall Street Journal)
Read More[We’re in] a cultural moment in which influencers on the right are encouraging a traditional conception of marriage and family, where one income, earned by a man, should suffice, and a wife’s role is to stay at home. This notion seems to have caught fire particularly in its most social-media friendly incarnation…. (Goldberg, The New York Times)
Read MoreBeginning next summer, any Minnesotan using social media will get a pop-up warning before they log on. [The] label they'll encounter will ask users to acknowledge that prolonged social media use can pose a hazard to their mental health. (Ferguson, NPR)
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