Proving early rumours right, he has left reality TV for good old Hollywood: he's dating Sanaa Lathan, the star actress in classics like Love & Basketball,Brown Sugar and new box office hit The Perfect Guy. Sanaa confirmed it on Big Boy's Neighborhood radio show on Monday when, upon Big Boy's direct interrogation she coyly responds "I am dating" while doing nothing to dispel that French is the, ahem, perfect guy in question. Even though its audio, you can tell for sure that she's grinning from ear to ear. Read More...
Ideas
September 14, 2017 6:09 AM EDT
In the mythology of the American Dream, retirement is supposed to be synonymous with leisure. Not so for the tens of thousands of Americans whose safety nets were decimated after the 2008 recession; in order to find work, many of them are leaving their homes and hitting the road in RVs, trailers and other makeshift mobile dwellings.
Journalist Jessica Bruder profiles this cohort in her new book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. Read More...
The existential risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) are now widely recognized.
After hundreds of industry and science leaders warned that “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the U.N. Secretary-General recently echoed their concern. So did the prime minister of the U.K., who is also investing 100 million pounds into AI safety research that is mostly meant to prevent existential risk. Read More...
