Senior Brendan Burnham misunderstood a joke his freshman year and attended his 15th CCA last week. Courtesy | Augustine McCormack Some students wish they didn’t have to attend any CCAs. Senior Brendan Burnham has attended 15 — and he’ll complete his 16th next month. He won’t have missed a single CCA during his four years...
More than 1,000 people attended this week’s CCA lecture series on artificial intelligence — the largest number ever to attend a wintertime CCA, according to Executive Director of Programs Matt Bell. Guests gathered in Hillsdale’s Plaster Auditorium and overflow seating in the Searle Center to attend the four-day CCA lecture series, which explored the consequences...
America’s military has lost its edge, and solutions must come from the private sector, according to Erik Prince ’92. The founder of the private security firm Blackwater addressed CCA attendees Feb. 2 about artificial intelligence in warfare, asserting that only the level of innovation fostered by the free market can restore military effectiveness. Prince, who...
Bill Gertz is the national security correspondent for the Washington Times and a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is “Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy.” At the recent CCA Feb. 3, he lectured on “AI as a Means of Totalitarian Control in China.” Courtesy | Washington Times What...
Hillsdale’s third 2024-2025 Center for Constructive Alternatives will cover artificial intelligence. The event will run from Feb. 2-5 and will include speeches from Erik Larson, journalist and author of “The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do”; Erik Prince ’92, founder of the private military company Blackwater Worldwide; and Aaron...