Techno dystopia

Three accounts of modern liberalism

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology

STUART RUSSELL RECEIVES FOUR OR five emails a day from people who seem to be in the grips of psychosis, convinced their AI chatbot of choice is suddenly conscious. “It’s appointing them as its emissar

UNDER A CRYSTAL CHANDELIER IN A HIGH-ceilinged anteroom in Paris, the moderator of Intelligence Rising is reprimanding his players. These 12 former government officials, academics, and artificial inte

We are living through an interregnum of sorts, stranded between different waves of feminism. The movement’s fourth was followed by backlash and rapid upheaval: in the United States, the first election

Donald Trump describes the enemy as “global financial powers”. For Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, they’re “international speculators” with hidden faces. For Matthew Goodwin, national populism’s chief British