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Ray Kurzweil at South by Southwest 2024 (CC BY 4.0).
Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. Those accomplishments don’t end upon induction, however. In this week’s APS Member News Digest, read about Dario Amodei’s thinking, corruption, and the “Watergate babies.”
- What influenced Dario Amodei’s thinking and career in AI? Ray Kurzweil (APS 2026), writes The New York Times.
- Timothy Snyder (APS 2025) spoke with Christiane Amanpour on CNN about the midterms: “Corruption is the issue.”
- For The New Yorker, David Remnick (APS 2008) drew parallels between the incoming 120th United States Congress and the “Watergate babies” of 1974.