In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI. Karen talks about being banned from returning to OpenAI, after being ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...

To explore this issue, we can turn to a very different vision of AI, powerfully articulated 65 years ago by JCR Licklider, a leading computer scientist and psychologist. Licklider deserves the ...

Ryan Gilbey, long one of the UK’s most astute and exuberant critics, is not so sure. “Subtext is now text – and greater visibility can feel like a diminished presence,” he writes in his newly ...

The targeting of NewsClick —a progressive, medium-sized digital media venture based in New Delhi—marks a new low for press freedom in my country, which has been caught up in a decade-long trend of ...

That last phrase, though, should prompt anyone who remembers how things actually used to be to stop and ask whether the Trump tsunami truly did arrive from out of the blue. There was, after all, ...

It’s probably true that in the real world of assisted dying it doesn’t matter—it isn’t available to under-18s anyway, so there would be little point in a doctor raising the subject with them. And ...

As I walk across the newly pedestrianised Hammersmith bridge, London is as it should be—grey and rainy. Ordinarily, getting drenched on the way to an interview might be annoying. But today it couldn’t ...

Brian Cox isn’t short of a few quid. Decades of performing for stage, TV and film, including Hollywood hits Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, X-Men 2 and, not least, as the tyrannical Logan Roy in HBO ...

Cillian Murphy, who screen-tested for the role of Wayne/Batman, instead plays another split figure in Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, the psychiatrist who uses a fear-inducing hallucinogen to manipulate his ...

The strength of their delusions is such that they countenance literally killing one another to keep their dreams alive. Venis needs Jeff’s AI safety tools to slow down the carnage wrought by his ...

So, what does this have to do with the so-called housing crisis? It’s related due to a combination of factors. First, the decades-long impact of Margaret Thatcher’s failure to ensure that councils ...