Thomas L Friedman
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- Sep 23, 2026
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- Aug 12, 2026
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It’s time to cry wolf over AI (opens the original)
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“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” That’s what President Donald Trump said about the Covid-19 outbreak on February 10, 2020, about a month before it forced our country and the world into a lengthy lockdown. Why do I recall that today? Because when I think back on the biggest disaster stories I have covered — including 9/11 and Covid-19 — I am struck that they have one big thing in common: a failure of imagination. Sure, government
Too late to stop the AI threat (opens the original)
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A festival of artificial intelligence policy incoherence has exploded in recent weeks. It’s a response to AI agents’ going rogue on their developers, rogue actors’ beginning to use AI systems to create better weapons and AI developers’ telling us they need to slow down — but suggesting they can’t unless China does, and even if China does, maybe they shouldn’t because the advantages of leadership in the field are so great. At least one policymaker is clear. President Donald Trump declared in a so
How Abdul el Sayed can win Michigan (opens the original)
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I confess that I never expected to see an American election where the choice of candidates in more than a few districts will be a democratic socialist versus a Republican monarchist — but live long enough, and you’ll see everything. As I listen to these democratic socialists and King-Trump-right-or-wrong Republicans, one of my favourite movie lines keeps coming to mind. It’s from the 1997 film “As Good as It Gets,” when Jack Nicholson, playing a misanthropic writer, answers his door to find a ne
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