Artificial Intelligence
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment