The seduction of AI
ChatGPT: a conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good. I am going to come clean. I am an enthusiastic user of artificial intelligence (AI) or at …
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States of disunity from colonies to Trump
Richard Vague traces the class division and enmity that has characterised Trump’s presidency back to America’s colonial beginnings. Many thought that the presidential elections of 2016 and 2024 revealed something …
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Are students economical with the verity?
Henry Leveson-Gower reviews results from a recent report that tells how cues from mainstream authority sway economics students even at postgraduate level. Walk into any economics department and you will …
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A Chinese giveaway
Alan Freeman explains why China’s pole position in the artificial intelligence race might be down to sharing rather than competing. When Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, DeepSeek, released its R1 …
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The shocking untruth
Roger Miles warns of vanishing common sense as over-reliance on artificial intelligence grinds us down into a population of gullible mugs. Hurrah, artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived: let’s join HM …
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Rewriting the rules
International trade and finance rules have, since their inception, remained skewed in favour of the richest nations. Rick Rowden argues that developing nations want measures to right the asymmetries. Canadian …
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The pub: going down
Lauren Leek says Britain’s pub crisis is about far more than pints. It is about the quiet disappearance of places that hold communities together. My brother is coming to London …
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Eating your way out of a rut
For a healthy source of meat, venison could be fair game but beware what you wish for. Lachlan Kenneally writes. The UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) …
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Artificially fake
Patricia Gestoso counsels that our appraisal of artificial intelligence should be guided by the motivations of its chief advocates. Twenty years ago, I was a trainer at a software company. …
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We need to talk about procurement
Cliff Mills and Simon Grove-White explain why local government’s dependence on contracts is undermining public value and public purpose. Local government in England is once again being reshaped through structural …
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