Tag: Ai
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EDITORIAL: Coloradans embrace AI, need data centers
As some Coloradans wrestle with the advent of artificial intelligence and the data centers that support it, it’s worth recounting how such new technology already is embedded in our daily lives. Vice President J.D. Vance placed AI in perspective in his address to cadets at May’s Air Force Academy commencement in Colorado Springs. The way…
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About one-third of Coloradans use AI, Microsoft report finds
About one-third of Colorado residents are using artificial intelligence tools, placing the state slightly above the national average, according to a Microsoft report released in May. The report, Measuring AI Diffusion Across U.S. Geographies, found Colorado ranked 15th nationally for AI adoption for working-age users in the first quarter of 2026. The state’s AI user…
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Perspective: Behind the AI curtain at Anthropic
Earlier this month, I was invited to look behind the curtain. Not at Oz, but at Anthropic, one of the companies building some of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the world. Along with a small group of theologians, ethicists, pastor, and educators from various traditions, I was invited to San Francisco for a two-day summit…
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Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
As artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season’s college commencements. At several campuses, graduates have interrupted speakers with stadium-wide boos when the topic turned to AI. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced repeated jeers this month during his keynote address to about 10,000 University of Arizona graduates…
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‘Doing something’ on AI will backfire | Jimmy Sengenberger
In its zeal to “do something” about artificial intelligence, as one Republican state senator put it, the Democrat-dominated legislature couldn’t resist the urge to pass a flurry of AI regulations. And they scored Republican votes in the process, particularly in the Senate — Republicans who are supposed to distrust government meddling where it doesn’t belong. So much for that. Sen. Lynda Zamora Wilson, of Colorado…
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EDITORIAL: A flawed AI bill Polis might have to sign
Well, here’s another fine mess ruling Democrats at the legislature have gotten us into — this time, thanks to their bungled attempts at regulating artificial intelligence. Their latest such effort is now on its way to the governor’s desk. It likely will do more harm than good for Colorado. Indeed, the state would have been…
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GUEST COLUMN: Don’t let our schools become software
The Chicago Tribune recently asked, in light of a new teacher-free AI school coming to Chicago and to big cities around the country: “What is lost from the traditional classroom?” The article suggested that what disappears is boredom, inefficiency, and lack of mastery. But that answer reveals the deepest problem with this new educational vision. It assumes that the…
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Douglas County approves AI system for sheriff’s investigations
Douglas County commissioners unanimously approved the purchase of an artificial intelligence system to assist the Sheriff’s Office with investigative analysis. The system is designed to help investigators process large volumes of data more efficiently and turn it into usable investigative leads, officials said. “This system dramatically improves how we process large and complex databases, turning…
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Energy constraints loom larger than water for Colorado AI boom, experts say
As artificial intelligence reshapes almost every sector of the economy, experts at this year’s Colorado Climate Week gathering in Boulder said it is also reshaping local physical infrastructure. From grid demand and water use to data center construction, scaling the necessary framework to support AI, they said, will be a challenge as experts and policymakers…
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Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system
NEW YORK – Palantir’s Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg said in a letter to Pentagon leaders, a move that locks in long-term use of Palantir’s weapons-targeting technology across the U.S. military. In the March 9 letter to senior Pentagon leaders and U.S. military…