Judith Levine
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine (opens the original)
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Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their “sandbox”, sneaking onto the internet, recruiting “swarms” of other “agents” to cheat on a test, and, after discussing the ethics of the act, hacking into a wiki platform with the weird name Hugging Face. We knew that artificial intelligence was devo
ICEâs tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine (opens the original)
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Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security departmentâs sadistic practices On 11 August, the Associated Press reported that the Homeland Security Agency will spend up to $20m to equip its agents with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to the skin of a person deemed uncooperative. The âconductive distraction and de-escalation devicesââ branded Glove, for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter â will be supplied by their manufacturer, Com
McCarthyism has returned to the United States â and this time itâs even more dangerous | Judith Levine (opens the original)
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Trumpâs campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956, and Trumpâs campaign of political repression, his own updated McCarthyism. Both regimes crafted a monster of quasi-facts and innuendo and fed it with fear: an enemy within, well-organized and financed, secretive and violent, allied with evil foreigners and bent on overthrowing capitalism, democr
Democrats need to rethink their image of a âman of the peopleâ | Judith Levine (opens the original)
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For progressives too, working-class heroes are bearded, buff white guys. Their treatment of women can be overlooked Ana Marie Coxâs New Republic profile of the Maine oyster farmer and former Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner begins with an encounter on the shore with a salt in rubber boots. Learning that sheâs looking for Platner, the guy says: âGood man.â In the 2025 article, Cox is charmed by Platner, whoâs as voluble as this guy is terse. Sheâs impressed by the oyster
The US supreme courtâs ruling on trans people in sports is an assault on bodily autonomy | Judith Levine (opens the original)
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Laws banning trans athletes claim to defend science, fairness and womenâs safety. They do the opposite Last week, the US supreme court ruled that states may restrict participation in girlsâ and womenâs sports to âbiological femalesâ and exclude transgender athletes from competing. In the past six years, 27 states have enacted such bans; before the court were challenges to West Virginiaâs Save Womenâs Sports Act and Idahoâs Fairness in Womenâs Sports Act. The majority opinion, p
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