As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2026)

“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world, just as much as our own, was a world fundamentally shaped by techno...

There is an easy answer to this question, and a hard one.

The ‘unitary executive’ theory – backed by some conservative lawyers – is largely bogus. But it could wreak havoc on democracy

PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

Caroline Ashcroft explores the connections between current and mid-twentieth-century thought on the catastrophic potential of technology

AI totally "crashing" everyone's wages is a necessary stepping stone towards a better future, argues billionaire Marcus Andreessen.

Caroline Ashcroft is Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. She works in twentieth century p...

Professor Elke Schwarz argues that AI governance is complicated by factors which are intrinsic to AI systems themselves.

Beware technology that makes us less human.