humanity

“It was a beautiful evening of community coming together around something that reminds us of our shared humanity at a time when we need it,” said Yaroslavsky with a smile as the evening wound down.

“I think AGI is probably necessary for humanity to survive—our problems seem too big to solve…without better tools,” Altman tweeted a few years ago.

One side has bulldozers; the other side has humanity.

A professor of humanities at Columbia, Lilla is a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books who frequently writes about other intellectuals like Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin.

It is impossible not to think of the girl in the red coat in Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” a note of humanity and innocence deposited on the dust heap of history.