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In the past few months, unreleased frontier AI systems have significantly disrupted a classic conception of mathematics.

MUNICH — Shortly after wandering into the Munich Urban Colab this summer, I found myself trying to follow an intense conversation in German about the city’s new experiment with autonomous buses.

AI’s climb up the capability ladder is moving more rapidly, even exponentially, than its progenitors expected.

Sudan has often served as a mirror for judging the health of the liberal world order because it has repeatedly been a laboratory for multilateral interventions to prevent atrocities and stabilize the humanitarian situation.

The Achilles heel of consumer democracies is that there is precious little constituency for the future in the present.

HAPPISBURGH, England — Off the coast of Norfolk on edge of the North Sea, the ocean can seem calm, but the waters are deceptive.

Earlier this year, a university decided to audit the effectiveness of its new AI system designed to help answer student questions.

From Silicon Valley to the Vatican, across kitchen tables and in the halls of power, the world is astir over the question of whether humans will be able to control the AIs we’ve created.

Someone recently built a digital whip to make Claude work faster.

The application of power, especially for Great Powers, is an exercise in time.

Even if we know it is the way of history, it is nonetheless jarring to witness time and again the return of the repressed in the cultural and political life of nations.

The incidents that more than anything else fixed the image of rogue AIs in the public mind — the Anthropic model that blackmailed an employee to prevent itself from being replaced and OpenAI’s models breaching the production systems of Hugging Face — are,…

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Those building the most powerful AI systems in the world are increasingly telling us that the race to build them may be moving too fast.

In his 2013 book, “The End of Power,” Moisés Naim famously wrote that “power no longer buys as much as it did in the past.

In April 1941, with the Wehrmacht in Paris and the Ribbentrop–Molotov pact still in force, the political theorist James Burnham published “The Managerial Revolution,” which famously declared that capitalism was finished.

We are in the process of creating a second form of life.

When a patient is considered brain dead, the ethical decision is whether or when to pull the plug on a human life.

OSLO, Norway — Generational discontent carries within it the seeds of the future.

“What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy’s resources.“ —Nick Land SHANGHAI — Today, China and the United States are co-creati…

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We’ve long been ensorcelled by the passage of time.

Five years ago, I sat in my OB-GYN’s office, three months pregnant, reading a stack of consent forms for noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to find out whether my unborn daughter might have chromosomal abnormalities that would come with lifelong health p…

Earlier this month, the Berggruen Institute gathered religious scholars, philosophers, quantum physicists, AI technologists, neuroscientists and science fiction novelists at Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice to ponder the nature of consciousness.

On day one of America’s supposedly “most precise” aerial bombing campaign in history, 150 people, including 120 children, at Iran’s Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, were killed.

When James Perry committed a triple murder in 1993, he did it by the book.

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