In Race Matters, Cornel West anticipates a dilemma that continues to shape American intellectual life. He observes that the massive growth of the Academy over the past several decades, fueled by significant federal investment in higher learning, has transformed it into a “world in itself” and the primary custodian of the nation’s intellectual talent. Because […] The post A Call to Public Scholars During Turbulent Times first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
As AI adoption accelerates, the consequences—intended and not—are becoming harder to ignore. From biased algorithms to opaque decision-making and chatbot misinformation, companies are increasingly exposed to legal, reputational, and ethical risks. And with the rollback of federal regulation, many are navigating this landscape with fewer guardrails. But fewer guardrails doesn’t mean fewer consequences—only that the […] The post Black Boxes, Clear Duties: Owning AI Risk When the Guard...| Blog of the APA
Traffic is trivial. Rules of the road are a basic necessity for a well-functioning society, but their design is largely a technical matter of logistics and optimization best left to technocratic policymaking, not a major topic for public moral or philosophical discussion. This, I think, roughly describes a tacit assumption behind the way many of…| Blog of the APA
The Tangier smoke cat catches a piece of meat in his front paws like a monkey…my little monkey beast. The white cat rubs his way towards me, tentative, hoping. William S. Borroughs, The Cat Inside (93). I used to live in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and commute to work to Aachen (Germany), where I would stay…| Blog of the APA
When I was thirty, I told some coworkers about my plan to enter grad school to become a psychotherapist. We were technical writers for a large insurance company. “We used to have such dreams,” one of them sighed as the others nodded. “But you have to pay the bills and keep to what you know.”…| Blog of the APA
“The benign prerogative of pardoning” At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.” Yet, long before Trump and Biden’s recent pardons, the pardoning power has been controversial…| Blog of the APA
