Memorandums from Mary

I wanted to clarify (in my own mind) what it means to be “woke” or “anti-woke,” and how censorship relates to both concepts. While it’s hard...

Only those born before 1980 are considered digital natives. I’m classified as a digital immigrant, because I was born around the same year a...

A scene from one of the first productions of R.U.R. (London, 1921) I recently read Karel Capek’s play R.U.R. (first performed in 1921), an...

I recently rewatched the 1977 film Demon Seed —a movie about an artificial entity gaining power over human beings. I had last seen the film ...

In Diane Ackerman’s 2014 book The Human Age, * she discussed AI with roboticist Hod Lipson. Professor Lipson is the director of Columbia’s C...