The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that the Mary and David Nichols Conference in the Great Books will take place May 13-14 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The event will be held at La Quinta Inn, 911 S. 10th Street in Waco. For additional information, [...]
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 [...]
Joe Simonson, a former Undergraduate Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), has since his graduation in 2015 from Hamilton College embarked in a career in journalism. In the March 25 issue of The Washington Free Beacon, Mr. Simonson recently reported that an autobiographical story by President Biden about [...]
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 [...]
