The pro-choice faction in today’s abortion debate argues that a woman’s right to choose overrides all other considerations and must be fulfilled without restriction. In theory, then, the high abortion rates in black and other minority communities are a consequence of the free choice of individual women. But are they? Writing in the New York Times, Ross Douthat notes that the complex historical links between abortion and the eugenicist movements of the 20th century have never been wholly severed. Beneath the comforting rhetoric of female equality and individual choice, Douthat suggests that something more than just emancipation may be at work.
Keeping the AI Apocalypse at Bay
Writing in City Journal, Judge Glock examines legal efforts to control AI and dismisses the current fixation on suing for specific harms, such as bad advice. “The idea that we should treat Big Tech, including AI companies, like we treated Big Tobacco, is exactly the wrong idea,” he observes. A better approach is to assess product liability based on which parties can perform the task at the cheapest cost, as is the case with the regulation of medical equipment. This “has the benefit of putting the onus on companies themselves to game out dangerous scenarios and prevent them,” he advises. For more on AI, see this C2C article.
