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“The release of Hubbard was a gesture to Trump, nothing more, and does not imply a larger willingness on Putin’s part to make concessions or end the war,” argues Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

Secessionist movements regularly have “economic motivations,” but typically those are married to a linguistic or nationalist component, says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science. “There's no magic line” dictating what defines a nation, he says, but notes Alberta's case for nationhood appears harder to make than that of other groups, like Catalans, Scots and French-speaking Canadians in Quebec.

“It’s really important that we get our definition right with any attempts at regulating this very fast-moving technology,” says Baobao Zhang, Maxwell Dean Associate Professor of the Politics of AI. Super intelligence would be a misleading descriptor for general-purpose AI, as well as AI systems that are more narrow in scope, she says.