Jorge Mario Bergoglio — Pope Francis — went home to face his Lord on the morning of Easter Monday, after 12 years on St. Peter’s throne, at the age of 88. From the start of his pontificate, Francis ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons” and produces discourse that not only appears to be what a human could produce but coherently aligns facts, logic and ...

In my previous column bearing the title, “AI Tries, Fails and Unwittingly Succeeds at Poetry,” I engaged ChatGPT in a discussion of AI’s capacity to produce poetry. I suggested that an LLM was capable ...

In 1788, a year before the United States Constitution became the law of the land, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers that the powers delegated to the federal government by the proposed ...

If the current tariffs drama surrounding US President Donald Trump looks nonsensical to you, congratulations — you’re still sane. But sanity alone won’t help make sense of this new wave of American ...

I like to help my fellow Westerners understand China by comparing it to our own history. The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, leading to the Middle Ages — a time of political fragmentation, ...

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them. And some others encircle the world, dominate the chessboard, scandalize a nation or just plain terrify ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT with two goals: to better understand how AI “reasons” and to use its capacity to better understand how we humans reason. There’s a big difference, which ...

Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both ...

Turkey’s economy is in crisis. The country is facing one of the worst economic downturns in its modern history. Inflation has skyrocketed, the Turkish lira has lost significant value, and the cost of ...

At the end of the former’s administration, US President Joe Biden and then-President-Elect Donald Trump worked together to end the Israel–Hezbollah war in Lebanon, setting the country on a path toward ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. A ...