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OpenAI and the White House have competing visions for regulating artificial intelligence

OpenAI and the White House have competing visions for regulating artificial intelligence

Published by skeptic

In a recently released policy paper entitled “Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A blueprint for a federal framework,” OpenAI put forward its vision of AI regulation, built around five core priorities: promoting transparency, protecting innovation, addressing risks to national security and public safety, advancing democratic governance, and creating “adaptive institutions” capable of keeping up with these rapid technological developments.  But while those are all laudable goals, there is very little agreement on how to pursue them in practice. And according to reporting by Politico, the timing of this paper is auspicious, coming shortly after the White House released two executive orders on “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security” that would place AI regulation squarely within the government’s remit. As Politico AI reporter Brendan Bordelon points out, the OpenAI paper is an attempt to “nudge” the federal government towards a different approach, one in which civilian institutions are responsible for AI oversight. Outlining a process they call “reverse federalism,” OpenAI proposes that states be allowed to “to develop and refine common legal frameworks first,” before …

God Still Speaks Through Dreams and Visions – OpentheWord.org

God Still Speaks Through Dreams and Visions – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Credit: Michelangelo/1517/Wikipedia/Public Domain As the Middle East endures continued conflict, a curious phenomena is taking place. Ministries are reporting that Muslims are increasingly turning to Christianity for answers. This is particularly true among the Kurds. They are an ethnic group that originated in Iran. They number approximately 40 million. With no home state, they are spread throughout various nations in the Middle East. Because of a desire for their own homeland, they are often perceived as a threat in nations with larger populations. In an interview with CBN, Pastor Georges Houssney of Horizons International (HI) shared how Kurdish-Muslims are turning to Christ, often through dreams and visions. These are genuine encounters, as it takes a supernatural event to convince Muslims to embrace Jesus. This is because they pay a heavy price for leaving Islam. At the very least, they are cut off from their families and friends. In more extreme cases, their lives can also be endangered. It was just such a vision that led …

Politics Home Article | The Emerging Labour Leadership Camps And Their Visions For The Country

Politics Home Article | The Emerging Labour Leadership Camps And Their Visions For The Country

Published by Sam Flores

Wes Streeting stood down as health secretary on Thursday (Alamy) 14 min read1 hr As rivals prepare to challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership after Labour’s bruising local election results, PoliticsHome examines the emerging contenders, the factions forming around them, and the ideologies underpinning them. The Parliamentary Labour Party was plunged into crisis after the party’s disastrous results in last week’s local and devolved government elections, which saw Labour lose the Senedd in Wales for the first time, fail to make inroads against the SNP in Scotland, and lose around 1,500 seats on local councils in England. More than 90 MPs have since called for the prime minister to resign or set out a timetable for doing so, and five ministers, including one Cabinet minister, have resigned from their posts. A formal leadership challenge has not yet been launched to topple Starmer as Prime Minister. However, a contest looks imminent, with Wes Streeting having resigned as health secretary on Thursday, and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham announcing that he will attempt to stand …

Visions of Depravity | Ben Davis

Visions of Depravity | Ben Davis

Published by José Betancourt

Ceija Stojka’s small paintings at the Drawing Center swarm with such harrowing incident that viewers may not spot the mystery in the bottom right corner of many of her canvases. There, arcing over her signature, is a jagged black mark. Sometimes it forks like a lightning bolt. Only in a few of the paintings is the mark clearly discernible as the crooked branch of a tree. Born in Austria in 1933, the year Hitler took power in Germany, Stojka was a survivor of the Romani Holocaust, in which the Third Reich murdered as many as half a million people. In 1943 she and her family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The next year they were transferred to Ravensbrück, and then the next to Bergen-Belsen. In the despairing final months before the British liberated the camp in 1945, Stojka’s mother came upon a small green tree and fed its leaves and bark to her starving children, telling them, Stojka later wrote, “Here’s something good. It will make you strong.” She would remember the tree as her savior. …

‘Humboldt USA’ Doc Film Interview on Nature: Visions du Réel 2026

‘Humboldt USA’ Doc Film Interview on Nature: Visions du Réel 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

Countless places across the U.S. bear the name of Alexander von Humboldt. In fact, the German naturalist and polymath has been described as the person with more species – from penguins and monkeys to an orchid – and places named after him than any other human. And at the beginning of the 19th century, he proposed a radical idea that has also been popular in the context of climate change: to consider nature as a “network of interconnected lives.” Humboldt USA, the feature film debut from G. Anthony Svatek, follows in his footsteps, traveling across the U.S., from ancient redwood forests to a parkway in New York state and the bright lights of Nevada, to explore our evolving relationship with nature. Weaving together the stories of people in those locations, Humboldt’s own words and thoughts from the filmmaker, the kaleidoscopic result is a playful, but also fraught, love letter to the naturalist. Humboldt USA world premieres in the international feature film competition of the 57th edition of the Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, …

‘Heat’ Climate Change Doc Film Trailer, Interview: Visions du Réel

‘Heat’ Climate Change Doc Film Trailer, Interview: Visions du Réel

Published by Daniella Wilson

The heat is on! Just watch the work of Swiss documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd (Where We Belong, Almost There, Goodnight Nobody). She premiered her fiction feature debut, Don’t Let the Sun, at the Locarno Film Festival last year, bringing us a near-future-set cinematic contemplation of how external factors, namely climate change, affect and shape our inner worlds. Now, Zünd is getting ready to world premiere a film that dives into the same themes in a different, namely documentary, and very provocative form. The new film, aptly called Heat, will debut at the 57th edition of the Visions du Réel (VdR) doc festival in Nyon, Switzerland, on April 20. It will screen in the international feature film competition of the fest, which opens on Friday, April 17, and runs through April 26. Featuring highly stylized imagery and sound to bring the heat to viewers in all its intensity, the doc is set in the Persian Gulf, “one of the hottest regions in the world,” with temperatures crossing the 50 degrees Celsius/120 degrees Fahrenheit mark, and a place where “the …

2026 Visions du Réel Interview

2026 Visions du Réel Interview

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Roots of Madness. The title of the new documentary from Swiss filmmaker Edgar Hagen (Who Are We?, Journey to the Safest Place on Earth) is provocative. Its goal is ambitious. After all, amid the heated political debate about migration and rise of xenophobia across Europe and other parts of the world over the past decade-plus, the film looks to answer the question: Why do so many people become refugees? For his cinematic exploration, Hagen tries to understand “the long-term consequences of Western intervention in the Middle East,” as a synopsis highlights. In his investigation, the filmmaker accompanies veteran German journalist Ulrich Tilgner, who has covered war zones and crisis hotspots for German and Swiss broadcasters, on a farewell journey to meet not only regular people along the way but also former contacts, old friends, and past interview subjects in the likes of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria to find out how things have played out since his past visits. The Roots of Madness world premieres in the national competition of the 57th edition of the Swiss documentary …

’The Price of the Sun’ Doc Film Interview: Visions du Réel 2026

’The Price of the Sun’ Doc Film Interview: Visions du Réel 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

It’s complicated! The world’s largest solar power plant is being built in Morocco, with the aim of turning arid land into a “green energy source.” So far, so good, you say? But wait, there’s a catch! After all, barriers go up, and access to water becomes difficult. And members of the local Berber tribe, the indigenous Nomad population, are given no choice but to work for the power plant. In The Price of the Sun (Du soleil et du plomb), Belgian director Jérôme le Maire (Burning Out, Tea or Electricity) zooms in on the ambiguities and hidden costs of progress and “the resilience and adaptability of a community forced to reinvent itself in the shadow of the renewable energy revolution.” The film world premieres on Saturday, April 18 in the international feature film competition program of the 57th edition of the Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon, Switzerland. With cinematography from Olivier Boonjing and le Maire and editing by Matyas Veress, The Price of the Sun shows us how the nomads’ traditions exist in quiet …

In Munich, France and Germany present two visions for Europe while Rubio wants to ‘build a new Western century’

In Munich, France and Germany present two visions for Europe while Rubio wants to ‘build a new Western century’

Published by Sam Flores

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 14, 2026 in Munich, southern Germany. THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP The 62nd edition of the Munich Security Conference, which opened on Friday, February 13, chose a wrecking ball as its symbol. The organizers of this major event in transatlantic relations said it was a metaphor for a world order “under demolition” due to Donald Trump’s brutality and his disregard for rules. Just one year after the shock caused by a speech from US Vice President JD Vance, political leaders from across Europe were expected to deliver their response to an America that shows them contempt, and to carve out their place in this new world. But Vance was not in the room to hear the European response. It was US Secretary of State Marco Rubio who spoke on Saturday on behalf of the United States at the Art Deco Bayerischer Hof hotel. Rubio is considered less hostile toward Europeans, but his assessment was the same as that of Trump …