Techno dystopia

Every news bulletin brings more breathtaking brutishness from the Trump administration. One day it’s “disappearing” immigrants; another, disdaining court orders. On yet another it might be pardoning t

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

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

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

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