Tennessee lawmakers just voted to advance a bill turning public schools into immigration checkpoints. The GOP-led Senate Education Committee approved a measure to verify students’ immigration status and bar those who can’t prove legal residency unless they pay tuition—despite warnings that it could cost the state federal funding and violate the Civil Rights Act.
At least three Republicans joined the lone Democrat in opposing it, but the bill still moves forward, setting up a legal and ethical disaster.
The term “PhD-level AI” is essentially a marketing term, though OpenAI’s o3 model has demonstrated impressive performance on several academic benchmarks, including:
2024 American Invitational Mathematics Exam: 96.7% (missed only one question)
GPQA Diamond (graduate-level STEM):
87.7%Frontier Math Benchmark: 25.2% (a significant jump over previous models)
The model utilizes “private chain of thought” reasoning, simulating internal dialogues before finalizing responses.
Despite these achievements, critics argue that hiring a real PhD student would be far cheaper than these AI agents’ $20,000 price tag. While the AI demonstrates high benchmark performance, its ability to replicate doctoral-level expertise in real-world research remains debatable.
The most likely answer is that they’re afraid of Trump, but the larger problem is that the MAGA movement—including its supporters in the military and the Defense Department—is based on fear and insecurity, a sense that American culture is hostile to them and that Trump is the protector of a minority under siege. Many members of this movement believe that the “left,” or whatever remains of it now, is engaged in a war on the traditional family, on masculinity, on American capitalism, on Christmas and Christians. They see DEI as one of the many spiritual and moral pathogens that threaten to infect fine young men and women (especially white ones) and turn them into sexually decadent Marxists.
Of course, the argument that some MAGAs will come back with as they want to purge the government of anything that could be misconstrued as ‘DEI’–which they don’t understand–will be this: “Well, you lefties wanted to rename all those military bases named after Confederate war heroes!”
