1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1498+ words) By Matthew ParishSunday 13 September 2026There is something peculiar about the artificial intelligence revolution. Almost everybody who uses the most sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence can see that the technology is extraordinary. A competent large language model can draft documents, analyse data,…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1453+ words) By Matthew ParishFriday 11 September 2026One of the peculiar characteristics of the artificial intelligence revolution is that technological questions have a habit of becoming philosophical questions and then, rather suddenly, practical legal ones. Whether a machine can think was once a subject…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1474+ words) By Matthew ParishWednesday 9 September 2026There is an increasingly fashionable proposition in discussions about artificial intelligence that humanity ought to stop for a while. Artificial intelligence is developing so quickly, the argument runs, that governments, societies and even the scientists constructing the…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1488+ words) By Matthew ParishWednesday 9 September 2026Money is amongst the most peculiar of human inventions, because almost nothing about it exists independently of our collective willingness to believe in it. A banknote is a coloured piece of paper whose production cost bears virtually…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1547+ words) Monday 7 September 2026 Artificial intelligence presents us with the possibility that intelligence will cease to be scarce. Artificial general intelligence threatens to overturn that division of labour. If machines can eventually reason better than we can, acquire knowledge faster than we…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1503+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 The visitor to Kyiv The story begins remarkably early in the full-scale war. On 2 June 2022, barely three months after Russia’s invasion, Palantir chief executive Alex Karp travelled to Kyiv. He was reportedly the first chief executive of a…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (975+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 Perhaps this tells us something important. The problem may not principally be that artificial intelligence has failed to become general. It may be that we never decided what “general intelligence” meant in the first place. What is AGI…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (901+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 And the distinction matters. A hundred drones flying towards the same city are not necessarily a swarm, any more than a hundred aircraft participating in an air raid constitute a flock of birds. A genuine swarm involves collaboration…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1133+ words) Wednesday 2 September 2026 Artificial intelligence may change this. The most consequential characteristic of increasingly sophisticated large language models may ultimately prove not to be that they know more than we do, calculate faster than we do or write more fluently than…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (1088+ words) Sunday 30 August 2026 His central concern might be expressed in deceptively simple terms: technology is lowering the cost of power. That proposition deserves to be taken extremely seriously. But it also deserves qualification — particularly after four and a half years of…...