AI
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…
My new job at the Amazon packing factory
What will you do if it all goes wrong? I have a back-up plan. Working for Amazon. Its Luton warehouse…
Will robots simply bore us to extinction?
In an attempt to relieve the drudgery of warehouse work, technology has now eliminated all need for human decision-making, Sarah O’Connor discovers
How the 18th-century Panopticon inspired today’s giant distribution hubs
The Bentham brothers’ invention is strikingly reflected in the ‘precisely engineered system of surveillance and optimisation’ at Amazon’s ‘exploitative’ fulfilment centres, says Henry Snow
America’s Trump card in China
The Trump administration has released a list of CEOs who will be accompanying the president to his meeting in China…
The ‘airport effect’ that’s ruining modern life
The phrase ‘computer says no’ now has its own Wikipedia page. The first recorded use dates back to a Stasi-era…
Accelerating the ‘kill chain’ – a terrifying glimpse of future warfare
A misfit band of military personnel and Silicon Valley uber-geeks apply AI to target America’s enemies more rapidly and accurately than ever before
No one seems sure about why Olly Robbins had to go
This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for…
Why is a chatbot deciding what books our children read?
A school in Greater Manchester has stripped 193 books from its library because they are ‘inappropriate’, liable to upset pupils…
The new AI system causing panic over cybersecurity
It’s tempting, even fashionable, to pooh-pooh the hyperbole from our tech overlords. The release in 2022 of ChatGPT, the first…
People need to calm down about Nigel Farage’s bitcoin wheeze
There’s a Tube strike in the old-fashioned style as I write – and you’ll understand the irritation, mine and that…
AI could never replace me
There are two main schools of thought on AI in the Delingpole household. I, as the resident batshit-crazy reactionary tinfoil-hat…
Has Airbnb just declared war against its hosts?
The Airbnb help centre chatbot kept telling me that she understood how frustrating it must be for me to have…
Who wants to bring back the Neanderthals?
The wholesale ‘de-extinction’ of vanished human species is one of many ethically dicey possibilities in the not-too-distant future, says Adrian Woolfson
We’ve already given up on novels
Late last year, I was notified that one or more of my novels might have been fed to an Anthropic…
China wants robots to look after the elderly
An AI data centre – imagine a factory of buzzing wires and computing equipment cooled by industrial fans – can…
The mystery of what makes us special remains unsolved
After spending six years investigating where consciousness comes from, Michael Pollan finds no overarching explanation
Are the chips down for AI thanks to Iran?
While Americans anxiously watch the price of gasoline tick higher as the war in the Middle East squeezes the global…
Letters: AI won’t save the army
Brute force Sir: General Sir Nick Carter is correct to point out the fragility of the UK’s armed forces today…
Is Keir Starmer prepared for the AI-pocalypse?
Is there any area of public policy which Keir Starmer’s government has got right? ‘Where very little is working, AI…
The glaring flaw in Keir Starmer’s AI plan
Like Harold Wilson and his ill-defined ‘white heat of technology’, Keir Starmer has latched on to artificial intelligence as the…
How to fight the AI revolution
Ask ChatGPT to write a Spectator leader about the risks of AI and it begins like this: ‘There are two…
Our armed forces are hollow – and our enemies know it
When you’re the chief of the defence staff, the head of the British armed forces, it’s never a good sign…
The scourge of plagiarism reaches crisis point
Since the launch of Chat GPT 3.5 in November 2022, the whole basis of how we assess work, especially in schools, universities and publishing, has had the rug pulled from under it
