Progress has its risks

ONE ICY MORNING IN FEBRUARY, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state. There were Republicans and Democrats fr

Office workers were the winners of the age of the internet and globalisation. But over the next few years, millions will lose their jobs to AI, says Ryan Zickgraf. In the US, the process is already under way, and the ramifications are enormous

How China’s AI breakthroughs are challenging U.S. technological dominance

The Pentagon and Anthropic’s battle over how the company’s AI is used by the military has highlighted an ethical and ideological debate that’s not going away

For a few months in 2001, the business world couldn’t stop talking about inventor Dean Kamen’s secret project, codenamed “Ginger”. Kamen had received the National Medal of Technology from US president

Authorial intelligence versus artificial intelligence: an ongoing palaver. We would rather think as little as we can about the possibilities of both; but it seems irresponsible to ignore the intellect