AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project

What is science? This used to be a test question at school, but it is now a test question for society. Today, we are in the midst of a historic collision between scientific discovery and scientific dogma. In July, just as the White House issued “Science: A New Golden Age”, its sweeping new scientific roadmap, Congress was raking Dr Anthony Fauci over the coals. As America’s most visible scientific authority thanks to his role in the COVID pandemic, he became the personification of a troubling reality that, until recently, was heresy. Not only is traditional science alarmingly fallible, but it seems that some in the scientific establishment are willing to be deceptive rather than lose control of consensus, cash flows and power. As a New York Times headline put it: “We were badly misled.” Th