AHI board member Dean Ball, who has been the manager of the Hoover Institution’s State and Local Governance Initiative, will join George Mason University’s Mercatus Center at the start of April. At Mercatus, he will be a Research Fellow focused on artificial intelligence, working with colleagues on AI policy issues. Mr. Ball will also [...]
The spring 2024 issue of the prestigious journal National Affairs features an article by Dean Woodley Ball, board member of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), on artificial intelligence (AI). Mr. Ball urges a halt to early momentum for excessive governmental regulation of artificial intelligence—and that we maintain a sense [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that former undergraduate fellow Timothy Minella has joined the Goldwater Institute as a Senior Constitutionalism Fellow. The Goldwater Institute is an Arizona-based public policy and litigation organization that fights to defend and advance constitutional principles in all fifty states. Dr. [...]
Dean Ball, board member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), warns against turning the blossoming of artificial intelligence (AI) into a “closed-source” or “black box” world about whose science the public is badly uninformed. In “AI Mysticism” the most recent article for his online newsletter Hyperdimensional, Mr. Ball argues [...]
President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken expressly favor a two-state solution to end the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Senator Chuck Schumer went a step further. In a speech on Capitol Hill on March 14, he openly criticized Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, for his conduct of the war and called on [...]
Dean Ball serves as a board member for The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). In “Science, Standards, Laws,” a recent piece in Hyperdimensional, an online newsletter about emerging technology and its relation to governance, he warns that general regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) would be counterproductive and unfair at this [...]
Hamas’s massacre of more than 1,200 Jews on October 7 escalated open expressions of antisemitism around the globe. Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), explains why this issue is concerning not only for the Jewish people but for Western culture itself. In "Antisemitism Is Not [...]
Friedrich Hayek ranks as one of the most consequential intellectuals of the twentieth century. Trained in economics, he made lasting contributions in law, history, psychology, and political theory as well. His magnum opus, Constitution of Liberty (1960), stood as a ringing defense of individual liberty against the collectivism of his age. Juliana Pilon, Senior Fellow, [...]
The pseudo-Marxist appellation “critical studies” and “critical Black studies” have entrenched itself in academe. They should set off public alarm bells. “[T]he radical Left loves to lie about terrorist groups,” remarks Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Case in point: the all-out effort among “scholars” [...]
A major part of the artificial intelligence revolution—“AGI,” or artificial general intelligence—is now rapidly coming to the fore, writes Alexander Hamilton Institute board member Dean Ball. The situation suggests that “all of the disruption and tumult wrought by AI could happen on a more compressed timeline than I had expected, say, one year ago.” [...]
