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by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
The thing that is going to be tricky here is that it’s going to be very tempting to use [artificial intelligence] as a weapon. In fact, it will be used as a weapon. The danger is going to be more humans using it against each other most likely, I think.
—Entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk speaking with comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan about misgivings concerning the future of AI (September 6)
In the life of the planet, destruction of night is as important an issue as the poisoning of water and air.
—Richard “Bugs” Stevens, a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Connecticut, on the ecological and human health damage wrought by light pollution (Aeon, August...
| ACROSS 1. Sandbanks or gravel bars 4. Fluoxetine’s trade name 8. Ellipsoidal yellow fruit 9. Like dodos and dinos 10. Relating to foxes 11. Inventor played by Bowie in The Prestige 12. Resembling a duck, pedally (hyph.) 17. Decapods with claws 19. Kin of an orange 21. Drupe whose husk yields coir 22. Coat defect caused by mite bites 23. Having a low pH 24. Protection for a pangolin |
| DOWN 1. Secretion that starts the digestive process 2 I = V/R (2 wds.) 3. “Pineapple Island” 5. Sound of a woodpecker (hyph.) 6. Torrid and Frigid, for two 7. China, to Marco Polo 9. Orbital area (2 wds.) 13. Dog without a bark 14. Active by day, like the snowy owl 15. Tree that yields gum arabic 16. Mammals whose den is called a holt 18. Computer code for text 20. Myna or chimp, at times |
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