Responsible researchers have the privilege to unhitch themselves from the "AI" brand at any time. Are you studying wildfire smoke or deforestation using satellite imagery? That used to be "remote sensing" and you can call it that again. Signal processing, image segmentation, structure-from-motion.

OF COURSE combatting a deadly pandemic disrupts people's lives. Governments should deal with those issues exactly as strongly as they deal with the actual deadly disease. Instead the victims of the necessary disruption were left hanging out to dry

China is responding to America's burgeoning military interference in its backyard exactly as Russia did over Ukraine and America did over Cuba in'62