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Response to 'Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom'

Response to 'Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom'

Guest Contributor

In his Jan. 6 opinion piece in The Daily Princetonian, Jon Ort ’21 underscores the importance of academic freedom that is the lifeblood of the University, but incorrectly suggests that Google’s recently announced plans to open an artificial intelligence research lab in Princeton undercuts that freedom.

OPINION | 01/13/2019

Frist Campus Center: Employing architecture to combat student loneliness

Frist Campus Center, a significant hub of social activity on campus.

Frist Campus Center: Employing architecture to combat student loneliness

Gabe Lipkowitz

I would argue that Frist epitomizes and encourages the best of college socialization, merging work with play and relaxation, thanks to subtle yet significant architectural gestures. As such, I argue that we should interpret Frist as a cause of our collective problem of loneliness; rather, it should serve a model for more spaces on campus to solve that issue.

OPINION | 01/13/2019

R. Kelly’s predation, the enduring violence against black women, and Princeton’s de facto complicity

R. Kelly’s predation, the enduring violence against black women, and Princeton’s de facto complicity

Samuel Aftel

Needless to say, the white power structure in this country has often been profoundly eager to criminalize and incarcerate black men – except, curiously, when black men have been credibly accused of harming black women. Such white moral indifference is partly why Kelly has escaped scrutiny for his misconduct for so long.

OPINION | 01/10/2019

We should all go to art museums

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We should all go to art museums

Anika Yardi

Authenticity is the key. Museums offer a way to bring to life the history and culture we learn in our classrooms, painting a picture of something that seems so far away and remote on the pages of textbooks.

OPINION | 01/10/2019

I support the Tigertones Men’s March

Anonymous

I wholeheartedly support the Tones’ effort to push back against our female supremacist culture’s dehumanization of the red-blooded American male.

OPINION | 01/08/2019

A more honorable honor code

A more honorable honor code

Braden Flax

Cheating and dissent should be greeted with mandatory transport to Yale University; only favorites will be embraced by the comparatively warm, protectively soothing arms of a swift death.

OPINION | 01/08/2019

A call to expand sexual assault programming

A call to expand sexual assault programming

Morgan Lucey

What they don’t tell you in the trainings is that the processing that has to occur in order to truly heal goes far beyond the moment at which the sexual assault is reported.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom

Google's AI lab in Princeton endangers academic freedom

Jon Ort

By entangling scholarship with Google’s sponsorship, the University has failed to protect its professors from plausible ethical dilemmas.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

The moral hypocrisy of a punitive Honor Code

The moral hypocrisy of a punitive Honor Code

Samuel Aftel

If the principal reason for the Honor Code is deterrence, you have to take “Honor” out of it.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

Rejection: The hardest part of winter

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Rejection: The hardest part of winter

Rachel Kennedy

Understanding rejection as a part of the course rather than a roadblock is a helpful mindset to keep at the University. There are so many people who seem to get it all, and it’s easy to internalize that or take it all too personally.

OPINION | 01/06/2019

Exercise: A boost to the system

Exercise: A boost to the system

Makailyn Jones

Make time for the important things: the body and the mind.

OPINION | 12/22/2018

It’s not magic

It’s not magic

Siyang Liu

Yes, it is the job of Facilities to clean the bathrooms and take out the trash, but it should not have to deal with the aftermath of laziness. Leaving a mess does not show Facilities how much we appreciate what it does. In our busy lives, it’s easy to forget that clean bathrooms and full paper towel dispensers don’t just happen on their own. Real people are working behind the scenes; it’s not magic.

OPINION | 12/13/2018

Who are we really electing?

Brigitte Harbers

Purely based on the multitude of almost identical candidate statements, it’s hard to distinguish what makes each individual unique. I ultimately found myself asking: “Why should I vote for you?”

OPINION | 12/13/2018

Ocasio-Cortez: The social media politician

Madeleine Marr

Ocasio-Cortez’s social media style is the only viable future of political engagement. If we want more people who have felt forgotten by the political elite to participate, we need more politicians like Ocasio-Cortez.

OPINION | 12/13/2018

Learning outside the classroom: The importance of reading

Shannon Chaffers

Princeton can’t teach you everything, nor should it. The onus falls upon us as students to educate ourselves on our own time, to follow the passions we’ve discovered over the years, and to seek to learn more about the world we live in as we prepare to go out and try to change it.

OPINION | 12/13/2018

The Other Side of Paradise

Liam O'Connor

Ivy is indeed the most international club. Colonial is mostly engineers and science majors. Cottage has the highest percent of athletes, with Cannon a close second.

OPINION | 12/13/2018

Permeable Orange Bubble: Why our world is real

Permeable Orange Bubble: Why our world is real

Braden Flax

An encroaching regime of intellectual narrowness leaves students unprepared for the “real world,” where they and their statements will be interrogated and scrutinized without mercy; colleges should apply this mercilessness as a form of preparation.

OPINION | 12/12/2018

Write dangerously

Write dangerously

Kaveh Badrei

The writer is one who refuses to be silenced, who continues to carry the powerful and illuminating justice of the written word forward in the face of opposition.

OPINION | 12/11/2018

The politics of sustainability

The politics of sustainability

Benjamin Gelman

When it comes to fighting climate change, how you vote matters much more than how you recycle.

OPINION | 12/10/2018

Advertising unhealthy habits at the C-Store

Advertising unhealthy habits at the C-Store

Katie Goldman

Although the University claims to be committed to the mental and physical well-being of its students, one of its convenience stores clearly promotes unhealthy habits and unrealistic expectations.

OPINION | 12/10/2018

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