The recent AUKUS defence agreement provides Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and creates a crucial counterweight to China’s growing naval power in the Pacific. Canada’s exclusion from the pact is further evidence of Ottawa’s lack of interest in defending liberal values around the world, argues Paul T. Mitchell, professor of defence studies at the Canadian Forces College, in The Conversation.
Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.
