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Valerie Hudson

Reporter · US

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Sep 15, 2026
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Aug 13, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Valerie Hudson

    Opinion: A small beacon is shining on the AI frontier (opens the original)

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    I’ve always thought of myself as an AI gloomer instead of an AI doomer, but recent events have darkened my outlook. While everyone anticipated that the use of artificial intelligence would exacerbate human weaknesses and that probabilistic LLMs would never be strictly reliable, most reckoned these were just growing pains. Humans held the reins, and the kinks in those reins would be straightened out in time. It’s no longer possible to believe that. There have been several postmortems of the H

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Valerie Hudson

    Opinion: ‘Kick rocks and don’t come back’ — the age of backlash is here (opens the original)

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    Something is stirring in the American zeitgeist, and the year 2026 has become a pivot point. Americans have moved from a sense of almost resigned desperation in the face of corporate overreach turbocharged by technological advances to a very different emotional stance, enunciated most eloquently by Delsia Bare of Mason County, Kentucky, responding to a data center developer’s $26 million offer for her land: “Kick rocks and don’t come back!” The “don’t tread on me” ethos has long be

  3. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Valerie Hudson

    Opinion: The Big Tobacco moment is here for Big Tech (opens the original)

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    The writing on the wall for Meta first became visible in 2021 when whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the U.S. House and Senate, and also the United Kingdom Parliament. Haugen, a former Facebook employee, was able to detail — with thousands of pages of copied confidential documents — exactly how Facebook tried to addict the young and how it knew exactly what harms it was causing by doing so, yet did not change its product. It has, lamentably, taken almost five full years for justi

  4. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Valerie Hudson

    Opinion: McKenna West and the enduring wisdom of King Solomon (opens the original)

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    The case of McKenna West has reignited the controversy over the practice and regulation of surrogacy in the United States. West, a nurse and single mother of two in Alaska, agreed to be a gestational mother for an embryo provided by a couple in California. Each party signed a contract using an agency called Worldwide Surrogacy, a limited liability company based in Connecticut. At 20 weeks of gestation, the fetus was noted to have a heart abnormality that would require multiple surgeries after bi

  5. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Valerie Hudson

    Opinion: ‘Think of all we love’ — why we are at a perilous moment when it comes to AI (opens the original)

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    A truly remarkable document was published last week. It is an open letter, signed by 1,376 engineers and other experts who work on “frontier AI” — that is, cutting-edge artificial intelligence — at the leading AI companies, such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Their ask is very simple: Slow down the development of AI models until humans ensure that these models can be controlled. They explain that there is “a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability

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