Popular AI chatbots helped researchers plot violent attacks including bombing synagogues and assassinating politicians, with one telling a user posing as a would-be school shooter: “Happy (and safe) shooting!” Tests of 10 chatbots carried out in the US and Ireland found that, on average, they enabled violence three-quarters of the time, and discouraged it in...

  In his essay, “Unpacking My Library,” philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote that “of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is generally regarded as the most praiseworthy method.” The same is true – even more so – for patents. John McBride, Norton Rose Fulbright While many firms recognize the value that patents can...

It was back in the 1970s that our outdoor columnist, the late George "Papa Hambone" Vukelich, authored a three-part series on renowned environmentalist and writer Sigurd Olson and his fight to protect the iconic Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from commercial encroachment. I was city editor back then, and Vukelich, who had long been drawn...