The end of us?

AI can be brilliant when put to proper use, but it also has some major downsides

Spotting cancer with computer vision. Pulling together weather data for better predictions. Solving long-running research quandaries such as protein folding. These are useful tasks for AI that benefit

acton.org The “greatest prophets” of free-market capitalism “saw the trade-off from the beginning”, says Thomas Dias. Adam Smith’s famous pin factory showed the division of labour enables the producti

It is the best of times! It is the worst of times! Charles Dickens didn’t do headlines, but if he did, the current debates about AI (Artificial Intelligence) in our lives and culture would be made for

Issue of the week: Musk’s starry mega-merger ...

It’s unwise to take tech billionaires’ predictions about the future at face value. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s promises, very few of us have moved our work and social lives to the Metaverse. Aside from