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What We’re Reading

As if people weren’t dumb enough: Say hi to “artificial stupidity”

By Lucien Crowder | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security, What We’re Reading

Trump pulls US out of climate accord

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

AI experts: Prepare for a sad immortality

By Lucien Crowder | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security, What We’re Reading

The best of the worldwide reaction, the morning after Trump’s decision

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Catholic groups ramp up international divestment momentum

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Green energy’s battery explosion

By Lucien Crowder | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

BBC: Did Trump fire Comey as part of a cover-up?

By John Mecklin | Special Topics, What We’re Reading

Nuclear anxiety reappears in Yuba City

By | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Tunnel collapses at Hanford nuclear waste site

By Elisabeth Eaves | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

How the House health care bill undercuts bioterror and pandemic defenses

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Special Topics, What We’re Reading

A columnist walks into a climate fight

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

EPA buries inconvenient climate information

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading