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Trump Releases AI Action PlanPresident Donald Trump announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) action plan and signed three executive orders during an AI summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Wednesday.
“America is the country that started the AI race, and as president of the United States, I’m here today to declare that America is going to win it,” Trump told the hundreds in attendance.
The 28-page document outlines the administration’s plan to lead in diplomacy, development, and manufacturing, positioning the United States to continue leading the worldwide AI competition. (More)
The ‘Chilling Alignment’ Between China and RussiaA Moscow court has sentenced a woman to four years in prison for practicing Falun Gong, as human rights watchers sound alarm over the “chilling alignment” between Russia and China.
The woman, 47-year-old Natalya Minenkova, was sentenced on July 23 after spending a year in detention under the accusation of “carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization.”
The prison term was handed down just a day after authorities in Siberia raided the home of a Falun Gong practitioner, seizing her phone and laptop. (More)
Appeals Court Upholds Nationwide Ban on Trump’s Birthright Citizenship OrderA federal appeals court on July 23 ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, approving an earlier lower-court decision that had blocked enforcement of the order nationwide.
The three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2–1 in favor of upholding the district court’s decision.
“The district court correctly concluded that the Executive Order’s proposed interpretation, denying citizenship to many persons born in the United States, is unconstitutional. We fully agree,” the majority wrote.
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Action movies should be perfect vehicles to show virtue, at least according to Aristotle. In his “Poetics,” he indicated that drama is the imitation of the deepest kind of action, action that proceeds from moral character. The first three films of the “Bourne” franchise are actioners in this sense. Together, they are about one great action, a flawed man becoming a good and a great man.
In the first movie, Jason Bourne rejects vice and orients himself toward the good. In the second, he faces and does what he can to remedy the evil he has done. In the third movie, he is particularly marked by magnanimity, putting his skills and sorrows at the service of others. As a whole, these movies offer hope in virtue’s ability to help conquer the greatest of odds.
The queen of the cardinal virtues is prudence, because it’s the virtue by which human beings can know, in a practical way, how to do good. While it’s as common to associate prudence with evil masterminds and cowards as with good and wise people, prudence really has nothing to do with evil. Evil is self-destructive; smart evil people just destroy themselves cleverly. Socrates and Plato say that the only real evil does is to the doer’s soul. The Bible states: “The wicked fall into their own nets.”
In “The Bourne Identity,” a practical man becomes truly prudent by seeking good and avoiding evil. It begins with the title character floating unconscious in the Mediterranean Sea. Upon being rescued, he has no memory of who he is. He’s pursued by the police as he attempts to retrieve his identity. He ultimately discovers that he was a black ops agent, who has assassinated dozens of targets while working for a CIA program called Treadstone.
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