New Hampshire’s 2024 AI child-abuse-image clause needs no real child and no obscenity finding. The state Supreme Court rejected that reasoning in 2008 in State v. Zidel, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected it in 2002, and on Aug. 25 the Seventh Circuit refused to enforce the narrower federal version. The committee that wrote the clause called the missing element a loophole.
The state’s payroll count is flat across a year in which residents kept finding work, its signature business tax runs on those wages, and nobody in Concord is measuring the gap.
The people selling artificial intelligence say a decade or less; the largest survey of AI researchers says 2047 for every task, a guess that moved 13 years closer in a single year.
Artificial intelligence is not just a tool; it’s a meta-tool reshaping the future. As we witness this monumental shift, the fear of displacement must be met with informed understanding.
Could artificial intelligence outlive humanity and carry our DNA to another world to start over? A sober look at what the science, the engineering constraints, the ethics, and the law say about a story fit for cinema.
New Hampshire did not wait for Congress: three 2024 laws criminalize deepfakes made to harass, defame, or extort, require disclosure of deceptive AI in political ads, and set the first statewide ground rules for AI used by state agencies, months after fake Biden robocalls hit the primary.
The U.S. is creating a complex regulatory framework for AI, marked by Executive Order 14110, agency enforcement, and state-level innovations. This evolving system combines voluntary standards and existing laws to manage risks, ensure accountability, and protect civil rights. The focus will shift from sweeping legislation to a standards-led, enforcement-driven approach.
Blockchain can enhance election transparency and verification but cannot resolve core voting issues like malware, coercion, and anonymity. A hybrid voting system combining paper ballots, end-to-end verifiability, and transparency logs is proposed. Implementing standardized protocols, audits, and cryptographic proofs is essential to ensure secure, resilient elections while leaving blockchain as an optional tool for public evidence.
Debt-heavy, dollar-centric finance is creaking under its own weight while Bitcoin has matured into a plausible alternative settlement layer and savings instrument; the dollar’s case, Bitcoin’s case, the objections on volatility and energy, and why the dollar may hold the crown longer than Bitcoiners think.
Amazon is cutting about 14,000 corporate jobs as it accelerates investment in AI, and UPS is reshuffling its workforce around automation; what the two companies say they are doing, and what it means for New Hampshire workers and policymakers.
The future-of-work series turns to New Hampshire: employment and openings, growth and risk sectors, the state’s workforce programs, and why modest projected growth with declines in some of the largest counties means the state is not immune.
The generation after Gen Z may never experience careers the way their parents did; what automation, AI, robotics, and digital platforms are doing to the idea of a job, and what replaces it, in part one of a three-part series.
The development of ethical AI is the responsibility of human programmers, encompassing a lifecycle approach from problem framing to monitoring incidents. Ethical considerations must guide data sourcing, modeling, and evaluations. Compliance with regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act and NIST guidelines is essential to managing risks and ensuring public trust in AI products.
