(Image from houseofcards.fandom.com) By Mike Zonta, BB editor (and ChatGPT) Me: People always talk about how great it was that Washington only served two terms. I think he had to be convinced to run a second time. ChatGPT: Yes. By the end of his first term, George Washington was tired… Continue reading
President Donald Trump speaks after signing a presidential proclamation honoring the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act in Washington, DC on August 14, 2025. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Major AI firms are reportedly set to meet with White House officials this week to discuss a voluntary… Continue reading
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar (D-Texas) speaks during a July 16, 2025 press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) “AI systems are creating real-world consequences,” said one expert. “Congress should treat this with the urgency it deserves.” Brett Wilkins… Continue reading
Posted on July 17, 2026 by Ellen Brown (ellenbrown.com) Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousands of years, work has been the means by which we fed our families, earned our place in society, and gave structure to our lives…. Continue reading
Glass Empires investigates the architects of constitutional rot. Free subscribers receive every article. Devoted readers who became patrons sponsored today’s work. Free Speech Now Requires Trump’s Permission, From Your Facebook Page to AI Research W. A. Lawrence July 3, 2026 Just In: Environmental research posted to Facebook can carry the… Continue reading
On the morning of May 25, Pope Leo XIV released “Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” his sweeping first encyclical. By 5 a.m., Dr. Mark Shiffman, a professor of philosophy at Saint Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park and the founding director of the… Continue reading
The CEO of the software company Salesforce, Marc Benioff, attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images) The commission’s upcoming first meeting will focus on “strengthening AI infrastructure, accelerating AI’s impact on health, education,… Continue reading
When it comes to artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump’s second administration has taken a decidedly antiregulatory stance — until this month. One of Trump’s first moves in his second term was to ditch the modest AI safety guidelines issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden. After Congress over the summer overwhelmingly rejected a… Continue reading
Posted on June 27, 2026 by Ellen Brown (EllenBrown.com) As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that could seriously impinge on our financial independence. The Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act, H.R. 4766, is slated to make privately… Continue reading
In San Francisco, the artificial-intelligence boom still has a remarkably clean public image. It looks like office towers refilling, restaurants getting lunch traffic again, young engineers moving into Mission Bay and city leaders building political careers on the narrative of recovery. Across the rest of the country, it looks very… Continue reading
