Other Voices
17 October 2025
AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige
Other Voices
10 October 2025
This feels like another tech-fuelled sharemarket bubble, but there’s one big difference
National affairs
29 August 2025
It’s just exposing cracks that were already obvious and growing
Books & arts
5 June 2025
Applying the term to everything from dishwashers to medical breakthroughs masks both its benefits and its harms
Books & arts
11 November 2024
Could artificial intelligence make us less human?
Books & arts
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
National affairs
3 April 2023
It’s the lack of intelligence in AI that we should be most worried about, and that requires a different response
Books & arts
17 March 2023
Can computer technology be relied on to increase equality?
National affairs
27 January 2023
The robot can tell you what everyone else thinks — and that creates an opportunity for journalists
Essays & reportage
16 December 2022
ChatGPT produces plausible answers supremely well. And that’s both its strength and its weakness
Books & arts
5 August 2021
A computer scientist takes on artificial-intelligence boosters. But does he dig deep enough?
National affairs
24 January 2020
Revelations about Clearview AI’s harvesting of online images challenge us all to think carefully about this technology’s impacts
Essays & reportage
25 November 2019
Can the hopes of tech optimists and the fears of tech pessimists be reconciled?
Books & arts
27 September 2018
Review essay | Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms