As students and teachers prepared to return to class, University of Minnesota professor Bruno Chaouat digs into the philosophical issues raised by AI. Writing in First Things, Chaouat argues that students using ChatGPT may initially get good grades, but will end up impoverishing themselves intellectually by delegating their thinking process to an algorithm.
Radical Transgenderism Takes Another Hit
The 11,000-member American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) – which includes hundreds of Canadian members – “has come out unequivocally against ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries in adolescents under age 19,” writes Leor Sapir in City Journal. The ASPS has also joined a growing number of international organizations in warning about the potential physical and psychological damage to children and teens of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
[Editor’s note: Two days after the ASPS’s announcement, the American Medical Association announces it now agrees that gender-altering “surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”]
