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CIA World Factbook, trusted source of knowledge about nations, shuttered by Trump administration

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If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants nearly everyone could agree on. Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies project due … Read more

I trusted AI with daily decisions. The way it dived in, experts say, raises flags.

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Recently, I typed a message to ChatGPT: “Tomorrow, I have a free day. Should I ask you to plan it, or should I plan it myself?” It was the start of an experiment: What would happen if I let artificial intelligence plan almost everything I do for a week? People around the world are relying … Read more