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Let’s Get Real About AI

“While further progress in the development of artificial intelligence is inevitable, it will not necessarily be linear. Nonetheless, those hyping these technologies have seized on a number of…

I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age

“For Mr. Goldhaber...every single action we take — calling our grandparents, cleaning up the kitchen or, today, scrolling through our phones — is a transaction. We are taking what precious little…

The Thoughts the Civilized Keep

“The hype around GPT-3 as a path to general artificial intelligence reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking about AI today. More importantly, it reveals the sterility of our current thinking…

A Letter to the American President: The Killer of Daniel Pearl Must Not Go Free

“The announcement by Pakistan’s Supreme Court, on Jan. 28, that “no offense” could be held against Omar Sheikh and that he and his accomplices should be “immediately released” is, of course, an…

Myanmar’s Coup Was a Chronicle Foretold

“Electoral fraud was not what obstructed Myanmar’s path to democracy. Rather, a partial—and stalled—process of political reform had left long-standing civil-military tensions to fester” (Sebastian…

The Intentional Precarity Of Gig Work In America

“​​That feeling of not knowing whether a night’s work will cover your bills is a common one among gig workers in America. Though it’s difficult to count the exact number of gig workers, they make up…

Covid has made inequality even worse. The only answer: squeeze the super-rich

“​​Political economists on both the left and the right are coming to the conclusion that the gap between rich and poor countries, as well as between rich and poor people, is destabilising and…

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

What President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew “-and what those contending with the United States’ contemporary difficulties would do well to remember—was that the biggest mistake one can make in a crisis…

Orwell, Priestley and the politics of the ordinary

In Britain, “the past quarter century has witnessed two contrasting approaches to politics” between “the Blair-Cameron years” and “the Corbyn-Johnson era”. “The status quo is now thoroughly shaken up…