In observance of America’s Black History Month, I am again reproducing a column I wrote on March 2, 2014, on an African American theme that I believe readers will find engaging.

Mark Turin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. Ross Perlin has received funding from the National Science ...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in a wide range of applications, from summarizing news articles to serving as study assistants in classroom settings 1, but emerging evidence ...