Katherine Mangu-ward

I've never been sure how to pronounce it. Bo-nah feed-ays? Bah-nah fieds? The term bona fides trips me up every time. But it's an important concept, so I try my best. You might even say I make…a good faith effort. To argue in good faith—the literal transl... See more

In a recent New York Times op-ed, the senior socialist senator from Vermont argued that artificial intelligence was "built on our collective intelligence"—our "books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations, i... See more

Introducing Reason's America 250 Issue America 250 Introducing Reason's America 250 Issue America was a bicentennial basketcase. For the sestercentennial, we're in shambles. But there are still many reasons to celebrate. Katherine Mangu-Ward | From the Ju... See more

One of the more encouraging developments in artificial intelligence is that some of the people building it have started acting like it might be dangerous. Not in the Skynet sense or the HAL 9000 sense or even the "oops, it deleted all my emails" sense, th... See more

At press time, the U.S. is engaged in a war with Iran—or at least very warlike behavior, including taking out much of a sitting government, killing Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top military commanders, dropping 2,000-pound bomb... See more