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Aug 16, 2026, 12:39 AM

AI and Teaching Jewish Civilization: Is an Enemy Needed?

Teaching Jewish Civilization

The Argument That Needs an Enemy: What happens when you forbid a machine to mention our enemies by Joe Nalven, with Claude Dara Horn reports that most American students, if they learn about Jews at all, learn only that Jews were...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 14, 2026, 8:24 AM

The Predictors’ Scorecard

Israel’s elections are but several weeks away – and the press is full of who will win, who will lose, and what does that mean for Israel. Not to mention all the other news topic prognostications. Overall, is this...

Aug 12, 2026, 8:14 PM

Is Artificial Intelligence biased against Israel?

This morning, I asked a commonly used Large Language Model whether it was biased against Israel. What followed turned into a long conversation in which the LLM at first defended itself but then gave away concessions. At 6,000 words,...

Aug 12, 2026, 5:03 AM

When ChatGPT Let’s You Down. Don’t Be Afraid To Ask Your AI Buddy–Why?

Over the past year, ChatGPT has conditioned me like a Pavlovian dog. I submitted my story for review and waited, tongue hanging out, for a complimentary AI treat. I drooled when I hit the submit button. But with my...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jul 24, 2026, 8:46 AM

AI, AI, AI (Yiddish for ‘Trouble Ahead’): Depends On Whom You Ask

The “news” is almost always about what’s happening “today.” Yet, when historians and the public look back years later, this distancing perspective offers a completely different picture. So while right now Israelis are into the upcoming elections (as are...

Jun 24, 2026, 5:27 AM

Outside the AI Box: Networks, Orientation, and the Assumption of Consciousness

Do We Know What We See?

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini + ChatGPT Introduction: The Disconnected World Model To understand the current impasse in defining machine consciousness, one must first look at the breakdown of biological presence. Consider a human being experiencing sudden, severe vertigo...

Jun 6, 2026, 12:11 AM

A Blueprint for Using LLMs as Knowledge Tools: Humanities and Social Sciences

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini + ChatGPT What shifts is not who creates but what creating means. Not the one who makes meaning from nothing, but those who are listening to the question, feeling the pressure, what emerges...

May 23, 2026, 12:39 AM

The Race That Keeps Changing Shape: Human Minds and Artificial Intelligence

Two Minds, One Thought

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude + Gemini This essay emerged from an extended dialogue between myself and three AI systems. I wrote, they challenged; I questioned, they reframed; we iterated. The result is a hybrid artifact (part human,...

May 20, 2026, 9:15 PM

The Wall That Wasn’t There: Consciousness, Method, and the Zeno Illusion

The Inability to Measure (AI generated image)

Consciousness is a target that the third-person perspective and method cannot face; consciousness is embedded in experience, a first-person perspective from which all targeting occurs. This essay emerged from an extended dialogue between myself and three AI systems. I wrote,...

Apr 27, 2026, 2:27 PM

If You Lose the Algorithm, the Truth Gets Lost

Screenshot of ChatGPT taken on April 27, 2026, of the question 'Did Israel starve the population of Gaza,' with ChatGPT answering 'Yes' after thinking for 6 seconds. (courtesy)

The next front in the war over Israel is not on a battlefield, a campus, or even social media. It is inside the machines increasingly trusted to explain the world to us. AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), is fast...

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