In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI. Karen talks about being banned from returning to OpenAI, after being ...

As I walk across the newly pedestrianised Hammersmith bridge, London is as it should be—grey and rainy. Ordinarily, getting drenched on the way to an interview might be annoying. But today it couldn’t ...

In considering this, it is important to recognise that social injustice arises from shared experience of deprivation, poor housing and indifferent schooling. In other words, one’s own neighbourhood ...

Muriel Spark led an implausible life. Born into straitened circumstances in Edinburgh as the First World War came to an end, she shone at school before moving to one of the least glamorous corners of ...

The 101 Freeway is where the fiercest protests have been taking place and abuts streets where some of the city’s strange driverless taxis have been torched—hence the smoke. But I didn’t need to use ...

The first panel, entitled The Future of the North Sea, opened by establishing some of the strengths and opportunities found in UK waters. “Experience working in the North Sea has always been a real ...

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video ...

The strength of their delusions is such that they countenance literally killing one another to keep their dreams alive. Venis needs Jeff’s AI safety tools to slow down the carnage wrought by his ...

As the world focuses its attention on Israel’s war with Iran, our situation in Gaza worsens. Here, safe food aid has vanished, markets have collapsed and only two means remain for getting food: either ...

It’s almost unheard of for a student to return home from university looking healthier than when they left, but I came home for Christmas in my first term aglow with healthy haemoglobin. My mum, nan ...

These are strange days for songwriters. The straightforward desire to write music, play it live, perhaps record some songs, is tangled by labels and publishers and marketing teams, by social media and ...

On Friday morning, the mostly Israeli and Palestinian participants gathered in the too-hot Economic, Social and Environmental Council building in Paris, as the Israeli attack on Iran—codenamed ...