Detroit Today: How science fiction has helped predict the relationship between humans and AI
Almost 100 years ago, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” helped launch science fiction as a genre in cinema. The 1927 film, based...
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Detroit Today: How education is adapting to ChatGPT
ChatGPT can take a bar exam, write business copy and do homework — what does that mean for us as...
Detroit Today: Should Detroit require businesses to accept cash payments?
This week, Detroit City Council passed a new law requiring retail and food service businesses to accept cash payments for...
Detroit Today: Legislation in Lansing aims to bring back net metering
A new bill currently in the Michigan Senate proposes to reintroduce net metering — a billing mechanism that pays residents...
Detroit Today: How Canadian wildfires are creating air pollution in Michigan
Meteorologists with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy recently issued air quality alerts. This is due to...
Detroit Today: The importance of expanding access to healthcare in Detroit
In Michigan, residents of Wayne County and Detroit have disproportionately poorer health outcomes than their counterparts in the surrounding suburbs....
Detroit Today: Black Americans have lower life expectancies than others
Through the COVID-19 pandemic up to March 2021, Black Americans died at 1.4 times the rate of white Americans. Overall,...
Detroit Today: LGBTQ+ acceptance grows in US but challenges remain
The Motor City Pride festival returned to Hart Plaza in Detroit, where Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the establishment of an...
Detroit Today: What Trump’s second criminal indictment means for the presidential race
On Thursday, the Justice Department charged former President Donald Trump in federal court with a series of criminal charges, including...
Detroit Today: Transit, mental health and regionalism on the minds of county executives
Each year in Michigan, political, business and philanthropic leaders gather on Mackinac Island for the Mackinac Policy Conference, an event...
Detroit Today: Brian Calley talks Michigan small businesses
Each year in Michigan, political, business and philanthropic leaders gather on Mackinac Island for the Mackinac Policy Conference, an even...
Detroit Today: How philanthropy is changing in Detroit to empower residents
Each year in Michigan, political, business and philanthropic leaders gather on Mackinac Island for the Mackinac Policy Conference, an event...