Amazon’s Expansion of Its AI Endeavors Symbolizes Changing Economic Landscape

As artificial intelligence makes its way into more and more aspects of everyday life, it is important to remain aware of its magnitude and potential harm as it relates to our social interactions and the preservation of our originality. Recently, the decisions of companies like Amazon to expand their artificial intelligence branches have shifted the technology’s target toward the job market. AI is a massive venture, and it is growing at a pace with which the general population cannot keep up. Consequently, it is unclear just how severe these job losses and competition for employment will become.

NationalHalle TourianFebruary 5, 2026Amazon, AI, AI RegulationsComment

AI Regulations: In Preparation for the Rubicon

International cooperation is a must to avoid a nuclear-arms-esque race to the bottom of AI regulations, or an “AI Non-Proliferation Treaty,” if you will. History has shown that whenever a technological advancement has the potential to cause harm, it often does. Recognizing the veritable downsides of AI can help the world get ahead of the eight-ball, maximize the merits of innovation, and mitigate the perils.

Columns, OpinionVincent GeorgeNovember 25, 2025AI, AI Regulations, Sora2, OpenAIComment

A Fossil Fuel Company Attempted to Fake a Grassroots Movement. It backfired.

Campaigns like this bring to light the concerning development of anti-democratic tactics used by fossil fuel companies, especially in the age of AI. This particular effort was a failure on the part of Williams Companies, but what happens when fossil fuel companies are able to use AI to effectively undermine public opinion and sway decision makers?

Local, Editor's PicksCatherine WilesNovember 2, 2025Fossil Fuels, Gas Prices, Local news, AIComment

The Law Isn’t ready for Open and Generative AI

As AI continues to become more apparent in both our own community, the law becomes more and more prevalent to understand what role individual communities and corporations as a whole choose to handle the AI boom.

Columns, OpinionEleanor GoldsteinJuly 14, 2024AI, artificial intelligence, UNC, Column, OpinionComment

Let’s Future-Proof Democracy

“Presentism’s endemic presence in democracy is indeed a reflection of its inherent presence in human nature. For this reason, many will argue that it is impossible to overcome without sacrificing any form of self-governance, but this defeatist critique belies a lack of imagination and ignorance of presentism’s true threat given the civilizational challenges we face.”

Essays, NationalCole MurphyFebruary 24, 2022Democracy, Essays, Future, AI, Climate ChangeComment