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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.” [...]
The campaign to erase American heritage continues in the United States. In a recent example, no less than the National Park Service attempted to remove the statue of William Penn, the founder of the province of Pennsylvania. Mention of it in the gubernatorial campaign in Pennsylvania compelled them to delay the disappearing act. Quaker [...]
Dean Ball serves as the State and Local Policy Senior Program Manager, the Hoover Institution, and as board member, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Mr. Ball received a grant to write a column on artificial intelligence (AI). “Hyperdimensional,” an online newsletter, is a result of this effort. Mr. Ball [...]
Dean Ball, board member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), discusses a major fear about artificial intelligence in his new online newsletter Hyperdimensional. In “AI Biorisk: A Dose of Reality,” he stresses that the software—and thus the AI-side of possible biological and chemical weapons development by would-be terrorists— is [...]