“By postulating that AI systems ‘merely imitate’ human intelligence, Pope Leo XIV’s ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ rejects the long-standing claim that imitating intelligence is the same as possessing it,” writes @scmallaby.
“By preventing natural generational turnover, Putin’s system has created such a blockage that much younger generations may leapfrog officials currently in their 50s and 60s who picture themselves as the autocrat’s natural heirs,” writes @JulianWaller.
“Attacks on national hubs of population, innovation, productivity, and creativity have little precedent in the United States. But they are hardly novel.”
Read @NinaHachigian on why illiberal leaders target cities: