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^{Heather Zeiger

April 5, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Policy}

The Dragon’s Deception

_{Heather Zeiger

April 5, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Policy}

U.S. Intelligence reports that China has misrepresented the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Social media was part of the strategy. An investigation by ProPublica and the UN shows that China has used thousands of Twitterbots, as well as hacked accounts, to applaud the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the heroes who stopped the coronavirus in China. Read More ›

Physician in medical face mask holding syringe while senior lady keeping arm on cushion stock photo

^{Wesley J. Smith

April 2, 2020

Human Exceptionalism}

Coronavirus: Triage if Necessary, Health-Care Rationing, Never

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 2, 2020

Human Exceptionalism}

With the raging coronavirus pandemic threatening millions with infection, people are rightly worried that we could face the awful circumstance in which there are insufficient life-saving medical resources available for all catastrophically ill patients needing care. If that dark day comes, decisions will literally have to be made as to who among the seriously ill will be given an optimal chance to fight for life under intensive medical care, and who may have to face a likely death, albeit under palliative care. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo

March 27, 2020

Economics}

Growth Without Virtue

_{Christopher Rufo

March 27, 2020

Economics}

The coronavirus has stopped our society in its tracks. Businesses are closed, daily routines are on hold, and families are huddled together indoors. With the headlines screaming catastrophe — death, depression, and despair — the partisans have retreated to their familiar corners. The socialist Left is hoping to permanently expand the domain of the state, and the libertarian Right is hoping to engineer a quick bailout and return to the “free market.” Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo

February 27, 2020

Economics}

Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not Pretty

_{Christopher Rufo

February 27, 2020

Economics}

Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and the “squad” of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a democratic socialist nation and Seattle has effectively become the nation’s laboratory for socialist policies. Read More ›

^{Bruce Chapman

February 15, 2020

Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute}

The 2020 Census is Here and it’s Counting on You!

_{Bruce Chapman

February 15, 2020

Citizen Leadership, Discovery Institute}

In mid-March you will receive a letter from the US Government preparing you to reply to the 2020 Decennial Census. Therewith starts a large series of changes, from numbers for each state in the U.S. House of Representatives to the allocation of $1.5 Trillion in federal aid to states and localities. The 2020 Census also will give us a new Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley

February 11, 2020

Economics}

Discovery Research Fellow Gale Pooley: Are We Doomed to Run Out of Resources?

_{Gale Pooley

February 11, 2020

Economics}

Are humans using up Earth’s scarce resources too quickly, posing an existential threat to humanity itself, as the chief villain in the popular movies “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame” believed? No, says Discovery Research Fellow Gale Pooley, an economist and associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, who more fully explained his answer Monday, Sept. 9th at a luncheon on Maui sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. Pooley recently co-authored with Cato Institute senior policy analyst Marian L. Tupy a study, “The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources,” showing that Earth’s resources are actually becoming more plentiful. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley and George Gilder

February 11, 2020

Economics}

The Simon Abundance Index

_{Gale Pooley and George Gilder

February 11, 2020

Economics}

Are we running out of resources? That’s been a hotly debated question since the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb in 1968. The Stanford University biologist warned that population growth would result in the exhaustion of resources and a global catastrophe. University of Maryland economist and Cato Institute’s Senior Fellow Julian Simon, in contrast, argued that humans would Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute

January 6, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Discovery Institute}

A Moral Argument for Killer Robots: Why America’s Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI

_{Discovery Institute

January 6, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Discovery Institute}

Doomsday headlines warn that the age of “killer robots” is upon us, and that new military technologies based on artiﬁcial intelligence (AI) will lead to the annihilation of the human race. In his new, short book The Case for Killer Robots: Why America’s Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI (Discovery Institute Press 2020), artiﬁcial intelligence expert Robert J. Marks investigates the potential military use of lethal AI and examines the practical and ethical challenges. Dr. Marks directs the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artiﬁcial Intelligence at Discovery Institute, and he is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University. Marks also heads up the Center’s daily news website, Mind Matters News and hosts the Mind Matters Podcast. This short monograph is published in conjunction with the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artiﬁcial Intelligence and the Center is making if freely available as a digital book at the Mind Matters website. Physical copies are available through Amazon.com. “Marks makes a lucid and compelling case that we have a moral obligation to develop lethal AI,” said Jay Richards, philosopher and author, The Human Ad-vantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines. “He also reminds us that moral questions apply, not to the tools that we use to protect ourself, but to how we use them when war becomes a necessity.” Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute

January 6, 2020

Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

Discovery Institute Announces New Fellow Tom Shakely Joining its Center on Human Exceptionalism

_{Discovery Institute

January 6, 2020

Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

Discovery Institute is pleased to announce Tom Shakely , who serves as Chief Engagement Officer at Americans United for Life, has joined the Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism as a Research Fellow where he will focus on human dignity, human rights, and law and policy. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute

December 17, 2019

Economics}

Christopher Rufo Featured in WORLD Magazine Story on Tiny Houses

_{Discovery Institute

December 17, 2019

Economics}

Seattle plans to stop funding another tiny house village for the homeless after months of fighting with the property’s managers. It will be the second time the city has closed down a tiny house development. Northlake Village, one of nine tiny house villages the city has built since 2015, opened in March 2018. A nonprofit group called the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) managed it and subcontracted with Nickelsville, an activist organization of homeless and formerly homeless people. Sharon Lee, LIHI executive director, said Nickelsville did not make residents look for permanent housing or work with a case manager. They also used evictions “arbitrarily and unjustly made people homeless again,” Lee said. Tension grew, and in April, Nickelsville refused to allow LIHI or city staff on the property. They closed the gates with padlocks and posted signs telling the residents working security to keep LIHI or city staff out. In September, the city gave LIHI an Oct. 7 deadline to enroll residents in the city’s Homeless Management Information System. LIHI failed to comply, blaming Nickelsville for not cooperating. Read More ›