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Catharine Johnston Westlake passed away peacefully on April 26, 2024, at Stamford Hospital in CT. A celebration of Catharine’s life and funeral service will be held on Friday May 3rd at 10am, at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1864 Post Road, Darien, CT, with a reception to follow. For further information on on her life [...]

Dean Ball is a member of the board of directors of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) and a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University. He publishes an online newsletter “Hyperdimensional” on artificial intelligence (AI). In his most recent piece, he explores “Synthetic Data in AI: Implications [...]

Alexander Hamilton Institute board member Dean Ball—formerly with the Hoover Institution’s State and Local Governance Initiative, and as of this month a research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center—continued his analysis of emerging information technology with a recent commentary that asks: “Who Governs the Internet?” Policymakers, Mr. Ball writes in his “Hyperdimensional” online newsletter [...]

In recent pieces for his online newsletter Hyperdimensional, Dean Ball, a board member of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), challenges prevailing criticism about developments in artificial intelligence (AI). In “On Technological Destiny,” Mr. Ball stresses that questions as to where “we” are going with AI, or whether “we” [...]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945 after his election to four terms as President of the United States. He entered office amid the Great Depression; initiated the programs that would become the hallmark of the New Deal; piloted the United States and its allies into war against Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and [...]

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 [...]