The Trump administration just overhauled and implemented the “public charge” rule, which dates back to 1882. It empowers DHS officers to reject green cards for lawful immigrants if they suspect that they will be reliant on public benefits sometime in the future. Award-winning historian and author of the new book, ‘Racist By Design’ Kelly Lytle Hernández says it is a “tool of eugenicists and white nationalists across time who have tried to filter who is allowed to enter the country.”
The conversations surrounding the risk of artificial intelligence aren’t new, but this latest wave of AI panic has thrust the issue into the mainstream. While President Trump calls the concerns a “hoax,” a growing number of legislators, including Representative Yassamin Ansari, are speaking out publicly. “It’s Congress’ job to regulate industries,” she said. “When cars came out and cars were dangerous, you add seatbelts, you add airbags to make the product safe.”
In 1982, a law conference at Yale launched the conservative powerhouse the Federalist Society, and with it, a decades-long campaign to remake America's courts. Journalist Alex Wagner talks about her new book, "The Steal," which traces the movement to the four men who helped build it. According to Wagner, the group "changed the course of American history,” and might offer Democrats "a blueprint for action."
Jacob Soboroff hits up City Hall’s Greenmarket in New York City to get voters’ predictions on what’s driving them to the polls, whether AI will kill us all, and if the Yankees will win the World Series. Spoiler alert: Jacob, a Dodger fan, doesn’t think so.
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
“Children don’t need perfect parents. They need human ones.” Like it or not, our children are growing up in the AI age - but how do we teach them how to use it responsibly? Check out this week’s new episode of Chasing Life on the CNN App to find out.
President Donald Trump said Saturday he plans to create an “AI Force” and name an AI czar as the government faces growing calls to impose guardrails on the technology's rapid development. It's unclear what the "AI Force" will entail.
HBO’s “A Killer Story” revisits Dana Chandler’s overturned murder conviction, while Joe Sexton examines how certainty can outlast a damaged prosecution. Dana Chandler’s original conviction gave way to a new trial and a 7-5 hung jury, leaving the killings of Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness unresolved. Sisco, Chandler’s ex-husband, and Harkness, his girlfriend, were killed […] The post Joe Sexton tests doubt in HBO documentary on Dana Chandler appeared first on American Almanac .
HBO’s “A Killer Story” revisits Dana Chandler’s overturned murder conviction, while Joe Sexton examines how certainty can outlast a damaged prosecution. Dana Chandler’s original conviction gave way to a new trial and a 7-5 hung jury, leaving the killings of Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness unresolved. Sisco, Chandler’s ex-husband, and Harkness, his girlfriend, were killed in Topeka, Kansas, in 2002. Chandler was later found guilty in connection with their deaths. “A Killer Story,” directed by Matthew Galkin, follows investigative journalist Joe Sexton as he examines the case, its disputed evidence and the people consumed by it. The larger issue reaches beyond one defendant. When a prosecution breaks down under court…Open
