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John Thornhill

We’re close to the point where chatbots and avatars are all but indistinguishable from humans online. How can you be sure that you’re not interacting with a synthetic human?

THE BROAD VIEW

I’m human. Are you? The quest for our online identity

THE BROAD VIEW

We need a new deal for the Web

Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bulls**t

A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly

THE BROAD VIEW

A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly

As one AI lord sees it, a superintelligence might arrive as soon as 2026; such powerful AI would amount to a "country of geniuses in a data centre".

THE BROAD VIEW

Will AI ‘compress’ the 21st century?

Contemporary America: Increasingly looks 'weird' ? -- Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic.

BOOK REVIEW

Who are we now? – humanity’s next frontier

Today’s frontier AI models are approaching the “universal” computers that Alan Turing could only imagine, capable of vastly more functions.

THE BOTTOM LINE

We need a political Alan Turing to design AI safeguards

The rapid development and increasingly pervasive use of generative AI systems has alarmed many.

PERSPECTIVE

Multiple red flags are not yet slowing the generative AI train

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