When a committee meeting on AI 'best practices' turns into something else entirely, one mathematician learns that two small words might open more doors than any amount of expertise. By Lew Ludwig I was invited to advise a committee tasked with developing "best practices" for AI use at an institution. Before the meeting, I received...

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social  [J]ust recently, people were saying that today’s warfare was a confrontation of technologies. Today, I have already heard our participants in combat operations saying that today’s warfare is a “war of mathematicians.” Who said that? The answer is given towards the end of my post. In my previous post, I discussed the...