Argument of the Week: Geoffrey Hinton: “AI has just as much subjective experience as we do. A recent paper showed AI changes its behavior when...it’s aware it is being tested...that means it’s conscious. Being conscious and being aware are pretty much the same thing.”

AofW: Chris Marquis, NYT: We don’t need to “fix” business schools. We need to abolish them...The problem with business schools is not repairable misalignment but the design itself. Business schools are not malfunctioning; they are doing exactly what they were designed to do.

AofW: Prof Jay Shaw Big technology companies are mobilizing a corporate defence playbook that was popularized by big tobacco, but has been used by other health harming industries facing regulation ... where keeping attention on individual willpower prevents stronger regulation

AofW: Alberto Manguel: AI is limitless, yet the human condition isn’t better, because we have relinquished so much of our sense of responsibility. Literature tells us over and over again: in Pinocchio there are no schools...there are just games. And they are turned into donkeys.

AofW: Chefs’ Letter offthetable.org Ocean-farmed salmon has become one of the greatest threats to wild salmon’s future. Because these crowded cages are open, they pollute surrounding waters; waste does not stay contained. Nor do sea lice parasites, disease, or chemicals.

AofW: Harper, at Canada Investment Summit "it is clear that the current U.S. administration views our level of economic integration as incompatible with our separate sovereignty. Thus, to maintain that sovereignty, we must pursue diminished reliance upon the United States. "

AofW: Alex Bruesewitz, former aide "the media and President Trump’s other critics have spent more than a decade complaining about his use of social media. They keep calling it ‘unpresidential,’ but if the president is doing it, it is presidential by definition.” equivocation?

ArgofWeek: Henry Abraham, Nobel winning psychiatrist: "if an airline pilot had half of the symptoms that the president of the United States has, we would not let him on an airplane...and yet, we have a system which enfolds the president’s health in a shroud of secrecy."

Argument of the Week: Chief Maracle, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte: "‘Ontario’ belongs to a much deeper history of the Great Lakes than the modern international boundary running through them. [O]ur culture should not be eroded in that process [trade discussions] or our rights.”

AoW Will Self on Jason Arday Neurotypical biography is continually reconstructed through live social situations. To challenge wholesale an autistic person's account of the facts of their life can therefore amount to something considerably more invasive than ordinary fact-checking

ArgofWeek Nobel Laureate Dimitry Muratov: "There will never be 'victory', because what has been going on for nearly five years – no matter how it ends – can no longer be considered a victory. It cannot be a victory when two Slavic nations have ripped a million people to shreds."

Arg of Week: Bret Stephens, NYT: Writing with A.I. is ... mentally enfeebling . As it becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care.

AofW: Chrystia Freeland NYT: it would be a grave mistake for Americans to treat their place in the world as an afterthought. Because the irony is that Washington is abusing its allies at precisely the moment when it needs them the most ... the US is weaker when it goes it alone.

Aof Mark Daley, Western's AI officer “The testing is critical. We need to know the cybersecurity capabilities of these models. But clearly the current testing environments are not secure enough, and right now we’re relying on the companies that make the models to do the testing "

AofW Z. Mamdani: Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. He’s a war criminal who's been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years

AofW: Mary Beard, The Odyssey Translations are never neutral renderings of the original. We have to remember that there is no one-to-one correspondence between Greek and English: the Greek languages encode the world differently. New translations show us new things about the texts

AofW: David Chalmers, philosopher of consciousness: “I think the demand for philosophers with A.I. training is, if anything, outstripping the supply right now. It’s an area I encourage students to go into. I think these issues with A.I. will be front and center for a good while.”

Argument of the Week: WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus: "Driven by climate change and global warming, the phenomenon of the 'once-in-a-generation' heatwave is now occurring nearly annually. We were warned."

AofW: John Rapley: Mr. Trump could never hide that he didn't have the option of using military force to bomb Iran into submission and seize its oil because the U.S. public wouldn't support a prolonged conflict. All future rivals will thus note...the way to prevent U.S. aggression

AofW: Mark Carney: “AI is here... AI can shorten our emergency room wait times and make a small business more competitive, if it is governed by Canadian values with a clear goal of improving the lives of all Canadians. That’s why we need an ambitious new strategy."