Leonard Zwelling

The United States is less safe now than it was on September 10, 2001 due to the threat from Iran, China and other enemy states as well as the uncontrolled danger of rogue AI. When are we going to have a national plan to deal with these existential challenges?

On 9/11 our leaders said we were at at war, but we weren’t. We had been mugged. Misnaming something can lead to disaster.

Football players suffer and die from recurrent trauma to the head. The game, as constituted today, cannot be made safe.

It is the faculty’s time to speak up.

The process by which the new president of MD Anderson will be chosen is totally governed by the Board of Regents. If the Board wants faculty input, I am sure it can get it. That’s a big if.

The ineptitude of the Pisters’ presidency was widely recognized. How do the Regents do it right this time?

The decisions of the President of MD Anderson can alter many lives–in both good and bad directions. The next big decision by the UT Board of Regents will choose who will be in that position. Let’s hope, this time, the Regents make a better decision than they have the previous two times.

Maybe this time the Regents can get it right.

When the faculty demands integrity from its leaders, the past 25 years of corruption might be put in the rearview mirror, but that is unlikely at MD Anderson today.

AI is an unstoppable force. Our focus ought to be its ethical application to problems and having a national plan for data centers to power the new technology.