Technical change is an issue of what capitalism does to workers.

During the 2010 election campaign, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was questioned by a member of the public about immigration. Shortly afterwa...

Following up on a similar policy enacted at its law school, the institution will prohibit the use of AI in core social science courses starting in the fall semester.

Text got cheap. judgment didn’t. How I hope to teach in 2027: AI has arrived for coding, search, prose, & assessment — three opportunities, and one problemtunity...

We need more than tinkering if we are to raise economic growth significantly.

an underestimated obstacle to infrastructure

Every July the OBR publishes fiscal projections looking fifty years ahead. Each year the headline is the same. The public finances are on...

Devolution, tax, the EU and immigration: these are all opportunities for growth if Burnham abandons the excessive caution of the past few years, says economist Jonathan Portes

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

My starting point is not what Andy Burnham said but points recently made by Chris Dillow. Here he argues that we shouldn’t worry about t...

As I have argued in previous posts , the rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes. In many ways over the las...

The authors contend that contemporary efforts to render AI systems interpretable rest on a mistake: reification, the process of treating abstractions and statistical artifacts as if they were concrete...

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

The pontiff also warned of a "new digital slaveries" in his first encyclical since becoming Pope last year.

This paper provides an introduction to Double/Debiased Machine Learning (DML). DML is a general approach to performing inference about a target parameter in the presence of nuisance functions: objects...

Vegane Hafermilch darf laut Bundesgericht nicht «Milk» genannt werden.

What Trump’s war against Iran tells us about the US government, the UK political right and the mainstream media in both countries What...

Yeah, na. I don't think so

ALT: a close up of a cat 's face with mathematical equations on it

Ben Zaranko of the IFS has just published a paper on fiscal rule s. It is well researched and well written, but I disagree with its conclu...

The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a

I must confess that this post will be very similar to one I wrote a fortnight ago. The big difference is that this is about this Labour g...

How to speed up the planning system without trashing the environment

UKRI’s new funding framework takes a stab at classifying budgets – but doesn’t yet govern research