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AJ Hess
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Senior Editor at TIME
Previously Fast Company and CNBC
Across these perspectives, “the lesson to be learned is that we are not safer by sacrificing others,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social for TIME. “Unity is our only hope, solidarity our primary strategy.”

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How America Became Afraid of the Other
"Punishing assorted others quells empathy and dissent, for we do not want to be targeted ourselves," writes Viet Thanh Nguyễn.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As such, the TIME Ideas Section brought together a wide range of op-eds exploring the impacts of the Trump immigration crackdown on international students, Latino Trump supporters, those held in family detention centers, and others.
May 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A nation on the cusp of wielding superintelligent AI, an AI vastly smarter than humans in virtually every domain, would amount to a national security emergency for its rivals, who might turn to threatening sabotage rather than cede power."

Read their full, powerful, piece:

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The Nuclear-Level Risk of Superintelligent AI
AI researcher Dan Hendrycks and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt stress the dangers posed by superintelligent AI.
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March 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
from medicine to finance to defense. Powerful AI may even automate AI research itself, giving the first nation to possess it an expanding lead in both defensive and offensive power...
March 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hendrycks and Schmidt even suggest that "Today's AI competition has the potential to be even more complex than the nuclear era that preceded it, in part because AI is a broadly applicable technology that touches nearly every domain...
March 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"What's at stake isn't merely economic competitiveness but perhaps the most geopolitically precarious technology since the atomic bomb," they write in a recent Op-Ed in TIME.
March 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The continue, "The new AI agenda must not be about restricting AI development, but rather about ensuring America's technological leadership develops in a way that benefits U.S. interests."

So here's how Trump could actually promote and protect America's AI advantage:
February 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Rather than entirely gut the AI Safety Institute, President Trump should instead refocus its talents towards the most critical national security capabilities and risks, ensuring they are identified if they arise," write Janet Egan, Paul Scharre, and Vivek Chilukuri in TIME.
February 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM