Ilya Sutskever is well-known in the field of artificial intelligence, having co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and currently serving as its chief scientist. His recent actions, including a surprising decision to fire fellow OpenAI leader Sam Altman, have sparked a wave of controversy and speculation. Despite his mindset and focus for the development of AI, Sutskever …
Villagers in southern Lebanon are moving north due to fears of a full-scale war. Many schools are closed, and Israel has instructed its citizens to vacate 28 towns along the border with Lebanon. The Israeli army has been engaging in daily fire exchanges with Hezbollah, Lebanon’s Shia political and paramilitary group, since October 7, resulting …
Thirty-four years ago, in June 1989, Poland woke up to a surprising turn of events. Despite a voting process that favored the Communist Party, years of propaganda, and control over the military and police, the democratic opposition emerged victorious, forming the first non-Communist government in Soviet-occupied Europe. Over the next decade, Poland gradually decentralized the …
In the midst of an active war zone, social media has once again become the platform through which the world is exposed to unimaginable violence and cruelty. The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, including innocent children and the elderly. These gruesome scenes have …
The weekend of September 30 marked a concerning shift in international support for Ukraine, not only in Washington, D.C., but also in two Eastern European countries that were once strong supporters. On that day, former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a last-minute budget deal to avoid a government shutdown that was conditional on eliminating …
If you were looking for online therapy between 2017 and 2021, it’s likely that you came across BetterHelp. BetterHelp claims to be the largest provider of online therapy, boasting over 2 million users. Once you landed on their website, you would have filled out an intake questionnaire, similar to what you would do at a …
Few American writers have a more intimate connection to a single house than Emily Dickinson. The reclusive poet rarely ventured far from her residence in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she penned nearly 2,000 poems. Despite only a handful being published during her lifetime, the house, known as the Dickinson Homestead, served as the epicenter of her …
Terra Ziporyn Snider, a resident of Severna Park, Maryland, vividly recalls the challenges her son faced in waking up for his first-period class at 7:17 a.m. in high school. There were instances when he would turn on the shower, go back to bed while waiting for the water to warm up, and end up falling …
Parent diplomacy has always been a delicate task for educators, often resulting in horror stories shared among teachers. However, in my ten years of teaching in a public school near Boston, these strained conversations have become the new normal, especially during the pandemic. The expectations regarding teacher-parent communication are evolving, and it’s causing burnout and …
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In the past year or so, since the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, people have been making their peace with the idea that an …