Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

Navigating uncertainty in the AI sector

The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.

Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.

Capitalism and the markets.

Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.

The British agency is often held up as a model of innovation. But is it mitigating AI's risks or posing new dangers of its own?

Three lessons from the latest AI cyber security testing problems

In common with lots of other policy people in recent weeks, I’ve been reading Head North, the (very readable) book by new Prime Minister…

A pragmatic AI agenda for the new UK government

A government institute to track how AI disrupts jobs is long overdue. But as it officially launches today, will it measure the right things?

The slogan ‘Albania is not for sale’ reveals a nation that respects itself, and will not sell its soul for investment, says author and academic Lea Ypi

FT calculates territory under control in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria is about 5% of Israel’s 1949 borders

Evaluating claims about AI and productivity in the UK public sector

Evaluating claims about AI and productivity in the UK public sector

Despite a few halting steps towards devolving power in Britain, England itself remains a profoundly centralised country...

Through its ownership of cloud-computing services, Big Tech is setting the terms for how we understand the climate crisis—and how we respond.

What the mainstream gets wrong about antisemitism

Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

Classical rational choice theory assumes preferences are complete, presupposing that an agent's evaluative considerations have a common scale. We drop completen

Coined by a German economist in 1926, Fordism came to describe the dominant political-economic order of the mid-twentieth century. Could "Muskism" play a similar role in the twenty-first?