Conor Friedersdorf
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
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- Aug 11, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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What Do Sex and Gender Even Mean Now? (opens the original)
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In her first argument as a lawyer before the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously quoted the abolitionist Sarah Grimké, who said, “I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” At some point, however, Ginsburg was encouraged to use an alternative to the term sex. “I’m typing all these briefs and articles for you and the word sex, sex, sex is on every page,” her secretary at Columbia Law School told her. “Don’t you know that those nine me
The Worst Way to Regulate AI (opens the original)
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The debate about how to regulate AI is unfolding as American tech companies race one another—and labs in other countries—to create ever more powerful models. Advocates of a laissez-faire approach to this technology believe that America should avoid overly restrictive regulations, because unlocking AI’s potential before other nations do could make this country safer and wealthier for generations. Their detractors believe that because AI models pose growing and possibly even existential threats to
The Worst Way to Regulate AI (opens the original)
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Abdicating power over the technology to this or any White House would be a mistake.
Explaining Sex to an Anthropologist (opens the original)
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Last week, the president of the American Anthropological Association weighed in on one of the most polarizing subjects in her field: biological sex. Some anthropologists believe that biological sex is binary, and that it is a necessary and useful category; others believe that this position is at odds with settled science and is a threat to people’s “safety and dignity,” as the AAA put it in an official statement. In 2023, organizers of a large anthropology conference canceled a panel that sought
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