Mermaids and unicorns

Contempt for democracy and the perversion of classical liberalism

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new reasonin

The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, l

When I began to follow the story of the Zizians, I assumed I was looking at an extreme outlier, a violent aberration in a community of nerdy but ultimately rational people. As I tracked the group’s hi

The driverless car now seems to have become a risky, possibly even toxic prospect for a great many industry powers. Having invested keenly, the big traditional players – Ford, Volkswagen, General Moto

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video