The Machines Are Here
AI wargaming and battle management for NATO. How three experiments show the future of human-machine teaming in combat, strategy, and command.
AI
I Told You So
This isn’t all bad news. Just like the internet took away many jobs, it has created far more new jobs and new opportunities.
Electricity Prices Are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
The Racial Hypocrisy of ChatGPT
I assumed, given the no-stereotypes mode, that ChatGPT would also refuse to generate images of a “typical Englishman”. But I was wrong.
Power Isn’t Moving Fast Enough
To lead in the AI age, America will need more than chips and capital. It needs clearer rules, faster transactions between energy producers and AI developers, and a system that rewards coordination just as much as production.
Demand for Resources Poses Promise and Peril
Several residents said their concerns have been heightened by what they consider the silence surrounding the project. There were no town hall meetings and no public notices to provide information or give locals a voice in the sea change coming to their lives.
People Have Concerns About Vehicle Tracking
Privacy advocates are calling for greater transparency around what data will be collected, how it will be stored, and who will have access.
This Faith in Biotechnology and AI
The risks to the whole structure of Western civilisation should be obvious, but somehow we are sleepwalking to disaster. We need to wake up.
Can ChatGPT Exist Without Fossil Fuels? I Asked
The scope of AI’s energy demand has significant implications for environmentalists’ dreams of hitting net-zero, especially when you consider the factors at play.
Gen Z Grads Are Un-Hirable and Unlikable
Why is the job market closing down for the Gen Z worker?
They Are Dreaming
I don’t know what Kennedy thinks about AI, but I am truly grateful he did not appoint a short-sighted computer to replace the committee, instead trusting in common sense. I second that.
We Must Avert an Intellectual Dark Age
One of the greatest risks of AI technology may be a degradation of the learning process itself, and thus a new intellectual dark age. It is up to teachers and teaching institutions to do all they can to avert such a catastrophic outcome.
