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Pruning

Yes, even small programs incur costs.

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What Can One English Course Actually Teach?

The rise of AI should force my profession to be honest.

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Opinion

The Surprising Upside to a Classroom Full of Distracted Students

I spent months sitting in the back of an undergraduate lecture hall. Here’s what I overheard and saw on students’ screens.

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The Superintelligence Force: A Moment to Reconsider the Pace and Nature of AI

In a remarkable period of intense development of powerful artificial intelligence capabilities, leaders in the industry have called for a modest level of oversight to ensure safety and provide protections against misuse and abuse of the power of AI.

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You Can’t Build Golden Science Without Global Talent

Trump has announced millions in funding for new science and tech initiatives, but the anti-immigrant America First agenda could undermine his ambitions.

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What Knot to Do: Academia Needs More Dyslexic Thinkers and Mentors

Doctoral students should be allowed to pursue multimodal research in lieu of the traditional written dissertation.

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How NYU Can Fix Its Free Speech Crisis

I don’t necessarily agree that NYU is the worst college in America for free speech, but it has serious problems that it needs to fix.