Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

EU digital regulation increasingly requires organisations to explain automated decisions affecting individuals. Yet explanation rights across instrume…

Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wh...

Drawing on experiences across diverse settings, this issue of Nature Medicine explores the challenges of and lessons learned from the deployment of artificial intelligence models into healthcare.

The aftershocks from OpenAI's proofs come at a time of deeper reckoning for MIT, where AI is almost all anyone can talk about on campus.

This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible wildfire events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.

For politicians, celebrities and tycoons, the brutal Ultimate Fighting Championship has become a vote-winner and money-spinner like no other

The crisis of literacy and the humanities predates smartphones and AI, argues Davies, who traces its origins to a transformation in how society understands language and learning. From the 1980s…

Reviewing Peter Schöttler’s new intellectual biography of Marc Bloch, co-founder of the Annales school, Mulder revisits Bloch’s ambitious vision for the study of history. Bloch rejected the discipline...

A handful of multibillionaires hope to dictate our future.

Will the labor market of the future include cold-plunge installers, psychedelic therapists, and house managers?

It can be difficult to run companies around the Sunday lunch table

The Islamist group has wide-ranging ambitions in its fight against Saudi Arabia

A group of French scientists sees OpenAI unjustly claiming it has solved the mathematical Navier-Stokes problem and sounds the alarm. A handful of tech moguls are establishing a private monopoly over ...

The nihilism industry: Streaming disavowal and ressentiment in the age of prediction markets

A group of French scientists sees OpenAI unjustly claiming it has solved the mathematical Navier-Stokes problem and sounds the alarm. A handful of tech moguls are establishing a private monopoly over ...

Danielle Keats Citron argues that preventing frontier labs from causing harm requires holding them legally accountable for it.

A thriving economy, a model green transition, social advances – Spain’s PM shouldn’t be in trouble. Yet he is, and it’s a lesson for progressives everywhere, says sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo

ARTICLE The Supply Chain Is a Circle: AI, Privacy, and People Alicia Solow-Niederman* Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance underscores the AI “supply chain” and the “many hands” involved in the cre...

AI’s involvement in everyday life is ever-evolving, with significant implications for how we work, live, and traverse fields from education to healthcare. As this powerful technology is incorporated i...

AI makes intellectual contribution superfluous.

The gilded excess of the billionaire Siegel family’s vast mansion has gone from domestic spectacle to political reality

Friday’s number is the final inflation report before November’s pivotal midterm elections, where business owners and consumers have said they will be voting with their bottom line in mind.

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · October 8 · 57m

Anne Carson defies genre boundaries, blending classics, poetry, and prose to explore desire, memory, and intellectual restlessness.

Cooperation is a big-hearted, finely researched work of criticism and reconstruction. Bernard Harcourt’s critical diagnosis of contemporary politics is dire: t…

Government bond funds are attracting record inflows as borrowing costs hit their highest level in decades

In her thoughtful engagement with Henri Bergson’s life and career, Emily Herring sets out to do what she argues Bergson, himself, accomplished: bring philosophy to the people.

Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.

We don’t usually understand literature as a dialogue. Typically, when publishing professionals think of readers, they think they need to entice them to buy the book so they may have hours of …

“If Flávio Bolsonaro wins, the right-wing forces he represents are more likely to call for the so-called “depoliticisation” and “de-ideologisation” of BRICS, but would not withdraw from he grouping.”

When public and private authorities make predictions about people’s future behavior, they must begin by identifying “reference classes”. A reference class is co