My segment with Mark Sutcliffe on CIWW 1310 in Ottawa on my National Post column on the worrying speed at which AI is getting away from us. (Also some discussion of Doug Ford and the Ontario PCs.)

"A good leader never walks by a mistake."

An “oft-repeated maxim” of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, according to Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, Stormin’ Norman

“In Mr. Arcand’s film [Les Invasions Barbares], there are many suggestions that, like Rome, our culture has become decadent enough to be vulnerable to barbarians, however unworthy they may be. Most barbarians have the vigour of their appetites, if not the courage of their convictions. The barbarians who savaged America on 9/11 had the courage of their convictions, too."

William Thorsell in Globe & Mail August 30, 2004

In my latest National Post column I say we must weigh the risks of confronting Vladimir Putin's Russia against the risks of letting it get away with murder, figuratively and now perhaps literally as well.