Author: Jeff Cooper

By all appearances, chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Grok, etc.) are just another set of black boxes of technology, glowing windows into the digital world. But unlike the fabled genies of old, they grant responses instead of wishes. Therein lies both their charm and their challenge. At the heart of these digital oracles is something deceptively…

The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence in America’s Forgotten Places Every great technological revolution has presented a familiar paradox: the promise of universal progress coupled with the reality of deepening inequality. The railroad transformed commerce but bypassed entire communities. The internet created unprecedented opportunity while leaving vast swaths of rural and urban America digitally…