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Some want to claim that an AI boyfriend or girlfriend is just as good — maybe even preferable preferable — to the real thing. Is that even worth entertaining? Porn is best interpreted as a…
July 24, 2025
The former justice aims to elevate the conversation. It should be pounded into the Earth. Justice Stephen Breyer may no longer sit on the Supreme Court, but he still has thoughts about his old workplace.…
July 3, 2025
  Key Takeaways At an Open to Debate event, Professor Thao Ha explained why she argued “yes” to the question “Could dating an AI be better than dating a human?” Ha emphasized the healing potential…
July 3, 2025
Elizabeth Shackelford, Senior Policy Director at The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, was a panelist at the recent Oslo Freedom Forum, organized by Open to Debate in collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation (HRF).…
June 30, 2025
In a live taping of the ‘Open to Debate’ podcast, commentator Brandi Kruse and legal scholar Nadine Strossen examine the state of the First Amendment. From funding cuts at universities to restrictions on the press,…
June 30, 2025
  In today’s article, we have a second season that exposes a medical issue, specifically C-sections, and adequately treating the pain of women. That’s the theme of The Retrievals in its second season. Then we have the…
June 30, 2025
  President Donald Trump’s tariffs have evoked a debate on decoupling’s repercussions, amid concerns over declining growth, high inflation and rising unemployment in the US. The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently held…
June 18, 2025
Courtesy of Open to Debate/Photo by Ryan Rose   This week I attended a debate about whether humans should be dating AI chatbots, held by nonprofit Open to Debate. Developmental psychologist Thao Ha was for the cause,…
June 13, 2025
Are robots better partners than humans? Should society stop swiping and learn to love the machine? It’s a question that’s increasingly resonant as more New Yorkers use artificial intelligence to write their dating profiles, communicate with…
June 8, 2025
DeepSeek. TikTok. Taiwan. And a White House shake-up on AI rules. The spiralling US-China technology rivalry landed at the heart of Johns Hopkins University last week, as a panel of top experts and policymakers took…
June 7, 2025
CNN anchor Jake Tapper acknowledged during recent interviews that the national press has, for years, functioned in service of the Democratic Party and failed to properly report on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline while in office. Tapper’s remarks…
June 3, 2025
  CNN anchor Jake Tapper said during a Thursday podcast that the press has advanced the interests of the Democratic Party for years. “The Remnant” host Jonah Goldberg said it seemed “indisputable” to him that…
June 2, 2025
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