AI
Want to know how AI will rules our lives? Look to speed cameras
Devotees of radio traffic reports will be familiar with ‘Crittall’s Corner’. Along with the nearby Sun in the Sands roundabout,…
Why we shouldn’t try to ‘kill’ AI
When the late Robert Maxwell threatened to sue me for using the IT system of the European to help produce…
How can we fool ourselves that chatbots feel anything for us?
Caring for someone who can’t care back and whose only interest is exploitation is a mug’s game
We cannot trust our AI overlords
It is no longer an exaggeration to say that the digital apocalypse is at our door. The advance of artificial…
The genius of Pam Tanowitz
Too much ballet these days is top-heavy with narrative that would be better served by the spoken word than it…
Adventures of the Time Traveler’s daughter: Life Out of Order, by Audrey Niffenegger, reviewed
In Niffenegger’s long-awaited sequel, Alba DeTamble slips between the past and a near-future world filled with robots, climate catastrophe, civil war and virtual reality museums
Harold Wilson is the new Labour lodestar
After Andy Burnham’s speech at the Labour party conference on Tuesday, one veteran factionalist declared: ‘We are all Burnhamites now.’…
Can Andy Burnham resist the techlash?
If Andy Burnham wants a reminder of the case for artificial intelligence (AI), he need only walk down the streets…
Britain needs to get a grip on AI
We remember the empty hysteria induced by warnings over the millennium bug. We have borne the burden of exaggerated predictions…
Portrait of the week: The assisted dying bill falls, the Sussexes quit a school and Trump praises a united Ireland
Home MPs voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that offered assisted suicide, by 286 to 270;…
Girls, let’s not leave AI to the men
As seen in the Times ‘Sodding sods!’ I exclaim, as I discover that I’m £16,000 overdrawn. Between the tweakments, the…
The fearlessness of Steven McRae
Steven McRae ranked for a decade as the Royal Ballet’s star virtuoso – a fearless technician of dazzling precision, speed,…
Don’t believe everything that AI companies say
Two big stories are driving interest in artificial intelligence this week. The first is the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a…
Throw away your keyboard
The older and more plutocratic among you may remember the unlamented business-class airline seat of the 1980s and 1990s. Every…
Do we really want to live in a world where we’re perpetually spied on?
We are now approaching the point where the Stasi dream is achieved globally. But the more surveillance expands, the more ineffective it becomes
Bots for tots: welcome to the terrifying era of AI toys
In the centre of Durham last week, at the far end of the old indoor market, my son and I…
The fall of AI’s shooting star
Situational Awareness is a hedge fund that has just taken a spectacular dive. Its name was adopted from the title…
Looking for Katrin: Rory MacLean goes in search of his dead wife
In an attempt to find some meaning in his grief, the author explores how different faiths, philosophies or ‘timeless traditions’ embrace the afterlife
Is Tainan the world’s most dangerous city?
In a country full of brilliant food, the Garden Night Market in sultry Tainan, south-west Taiwan, is still a standout:…
The utter utopian unwisdom of AI bros
In my belated quest to develop a faint sense of what AI is doing, I have just read Sebastian Mallaby’s…
The West has become its own worst enemy
America’s post-Cold War decision to share its technological innovations with the rest of the world has spectacularly backfired, says Steve Feldstein
The dangers of policing misinformation
When Steve Reed, the now ex-communities secretary, unveiled his social cohesion ‘action plan’ earlier this year, he promised to publish…
The real Chinese election plot
China’s political interference is in many ways worse than President Trump asserts, but the true nature and scale of Beijing’s…
Britain will need China to survive the AI revolution
Professional players of Texas hold ’em, the most popular variant of poker, go to great lengths to play a balanced,…
Letters: Keep AI out of the Church
I Spy Sir: Overt political allegiance and class snobbery may indeed have thwarted Toby Young’s undergraduate ambition to be ‘tapped…
