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After Israel’s unprecedented use ofartificial intelligenceto select bombing targets inGaza, experts are now sounding the alarm regarding what one analyst on Thursday called a lack of human supervision over Israeli AI targeting in Iran. “Similarities between Israel’s bombing ofGazaandTehranare growing stronger,” Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft executive vice president Trita ParsisaidThursday on X. “In both…
Hegseth pressed on use of AI targeting in bombing of Iran school
A group of more than 120 Democrats in theUS Houseon Thursday pressedPentagonSecretary Pete Hegseth on whether American forces usedartificial intelligencein the deadly bombing of an elementary school in southern Iran. “What is the role of artificial intelligence, if any, in selecting targets, assessing intelligence, and making legal determinations during Operation Epic Fury?” the Democratic lawmakers,…
Dutch retreat on Chinas Nexperia signals faster chip decoupling
The Dutch government’s latest decision to halt its intervention in Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, may ease tensions with Beijing but it underscores what analysts describe as an accelerating Western push to decouple from China’s semiconductor supply chain. To understand the dynamic, start with the less-than-two-months sequence of events leading up to and including the latest…
Dennis Lam, Louis Loong join wave of Hong Kong lawmakers sitting out election
Lawmakers Dennis Lam Shun-chiu and Louis Loong Hon-biu have joined a wave of politicians opting not to run for election, while Hong Kong’s legislature has broken from tradition by cancelling an end-of-term banquet with the city’s leader and other officials. Authorities also said on Wednesday that the government would hold a high-level seminar on the…
Opinion | Hong Kong’s international students should leave with more than an education
Few moments in US history have tested academic freedom as much as the present, with US President Donald Trump’s administration releasing a 10-point Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. What started as bureaucratic proposals have hardened into a national doctrine tying federal funding to political conformity. It is changing the nature of US universities…
As I see it | We can now watch our own genes dance
In the early 2000s, the news media were full of stories about the near completion of the human genome project, which promised scientific and medical wonders to come. Back then, I even wrote a story or two about the mainland Chinese contributions to the groundbreaking international project. The memory came back to me more than…
