Does the history of labour-saving inventions teach us anything about a revolution in AI?

Predicting AI catastrophe has gone mainstream with predictable consequences

Predicting AI catastrophe has gone mainstream with predictable consequences

The skill of specialised AI forecasters seems indistinguishable from much-vaunted superforecasters. But there are caveats

The skill of specialised AI forecasters seems indistinguishable from much-vaunted superforecasters. But there are caveats

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The less willing we are to take a risk, the more safe options we are likely to be offered

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It all seems very long ago, but there was a time when David Cameron was most famous for his enthusiasm for behavioural public policy, better known as “nudges”. In a TED talk released a few months b…

Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned. As he ​explained on X​: “[OpenAI and Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our ... Read more

The less willing we are to take a risk, the more safe options we are likely to be offered

Boundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture

The self-help genre gets a bad press, and not without reason, but there are a few self-help books that I’ve read, enjoyed, and felt wiser as a result. The Tao of Pooh (UK) (US) by Benjamin Ho…

Another bookshop in Oxford was doomed from the start — or so I predicted

As described in our previous post (.htm), back in 2006 ariely@mit.edu sent three Excel spreadsheets, each “last saved” by user “Dan Ariely”, to then-PhD-student-but-now-full…

Another bookshop in Oxford was doomed from the start — or so I predicted

The self-help genre gets a bad press, and not without reason, but there are a few self-help books that I’ve read, enjoyed, and felt wiser as a result. The Tao of Pooh (UK) (US) by Benjamin Ho…

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Just don’t ask a human what it means

YouTube video by HarFoot

Just don’t ask a human what it means

Help Tim Harford raise money to support Occtopus Oxford Colon Cancer Trust

Help Tim Harford raise money to support Occtopus Oxford Colon Cancer Trust

Our weakness for misinformation is far from new

In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in…