Plus, protecting LGBTQ+ students and how public AI can strengthen democracy.
| Americans feel the need to be extra careful when discussing Israel-Palestine Has U.S. public discourse been hospitable to frank conversations about the war in Israel and Gaza and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Shibley Telhami provides takeaways from recent survey data that sheds light on this question. He finds that there are substantial differences in the way Americans discuss each of these issues, with nearly three times as many Americans saying they feel the need to be extra careful when publicly discussing the Israeli-Palestinian issue as those saying the same about the Russia-Ukraine war. |
More research and commentary The death of Nex Benedict. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into the Oklahoma school district where Nex Benedict, a transgender teen, died after an altercation in a school bathroom. Rachel M. Perera discusses the investigation and explains why she is skeptical of this enforcement tool as a lever for bringing about meaningful change. How public AI can strengthen democracy. Just three Big Tech firms—Microsoft, Google, and Amazon—control about two-thirds of the global market for the cloud computing resources used to train and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) models. Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier, and Norman Eisen argue that the increasingly centralized control of AI is an ominous sign for the co-evolution of democracy and technology. |
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