Accused criminals are still to be considered innocent until proven guilty…by the tip of a nose, apparently. In Science, Peter Andrey Smith charts the concerning courtroom trend wherein cases are being decided and defendants sent to prison not on the merit of physical evidence but according to a smell test administered by man’s best friend.

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.


