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Just as safety nets protect performers in a high-wire act, ethical frameworks ensure AI advancements don't endanger society.
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Ben Gebremeskel, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Conductor and executive music producer Stephen Oremus told IndieWire that the balance between Powell’s score and Schwartz’s original song was a high-wire act.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2024
No spoilers here, but each movie builds to a high-wire moment of physical and psychological transference, while expanding the conceptual possibilities of audience identification—both inside and outside the frame.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Birds Aren’t Real, by Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos
Like birds perched on a power line, this is a high-wire act, a performance-art piece in print, and an examination of the psychology that results in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek comic phenomenon.
—Brian Boone, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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Ben Gebremeskel, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Conductor and executive music producer Stephen Oremus told IndieWire that the balance between Powell’s score and Schwartz’s original song was a high-wire act.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2024
No spoilers here, but each movie builds to a high-wire moment of physical and psychological transference, while expanding the conceptual possibilities of audience identification—both inside and outside the frame.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Birds Aren’t Real, by Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos
Like birds perched on a power line, this is a high-wire act, a performance-art piece in print, and an examination of the psychology that results in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek comic phenomenon.
—Brian Boone, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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“High-wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-wire. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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