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'AI doomers' and which risks they choose to highlight: UWM researcher on new AI warnings (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, a researcher from Anthropic publicly resigned and said the company’s AI model could pose a threat to humanity. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for international cooperation to slow down AI development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined in on social media saying he agreed with Amodei. OpenAI is now delaying plans for its public listing. What do artificial intelligence researchers make of those warnings? WUWM education reporter Katherine Kokal called up UW-Milw
What to know about the religious freedom to gather referendum on Nov. 3 ballot (opens the original)
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In this midterm election, Wisconsin voters will weigh in on a ballot question called the "Freedom to Gather in Places of Worship During an Emergency Referendum." The constitutional amendment is in response to COVID-era lockdowns that limited gatherings in the name of public safety. In 2020, the administration of Gov. Tony Evers responded to the pandemic by limiting gatherings to fewer than 10 people. These restrictions applied to places of worship. In May 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck
What to know about the partial veto referendum on Nov. 3 ballot (opens the original)
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Wisconsin's governor has one of the strongest veto pens in the country. They can delete words, numbers and punctuation in order to change a bill's meaning. Over time, voters and the Legislature have reigned in the power of the governor to stop pieces of legislation or even cross out individual letters inside of those bills. See: the 1990 ending of the "Vanna White veto" and the 2008 limits on so-called Frankenstein vetoes. This fall, Wisconsin voters will decide whether to further limit that vet
Your car may not take diesel, but your child's bus does. The cost of fuel price hikes (opens the original)
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Every weekday, around 650 yellow buses transport thousands of students to Milwaukee Public Schools. But as the Iran war has caused diesel prices to skyrocket, the cost to fill up one standard-sized bus has gone from about $260 to over $450. David Fifarek is the senior director of business and transportation services at MPS. He explains that the district agrees to three-year contracts with private bus companies. Those companies buy fuel based on the average, or benchmark, fuel price for the year.
New film explores what GOP takeover of Florida college means for schools across the US (opens the original)
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What happens when a state decides to control one of its public colleges? That question played out in 2023 at New College, a small college in Sarasota, Florida on the state's Gulf Coast. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis replaced six members of the school's board of trustees with the stated purpose of “rooting out woke ideology" from the campus. Within months, dozens of faculty and hundreds of students had left the college. The new board members promised an overhaul of the college's curriculum, denied
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