Move over Australia, there’s a new prison colony in town. Once proud of its ability to “Keep Calm and Carry On,” Britain is well on its way to earning the title of “most frightened nation in the world,” says Lionel Shriver in City Journal. As Covid-19 rules and restrictions proliferate, she observes that part of the problem is Britain’s lack of a written constitution or bill of rights.
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.
