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Generative AI will inevitably be used as a powerful manipulation tool. The evidence is already piling in, even more shocking than I would have expected at this early stage. Take Matt Taibbi, the investigative journalist most recently famous…

By Aspen Institute Italia & LAPS-Laboratorio Analisi Politiche e Sociali - Università di Siena We live in a time of polycrisis, to borrow the term first popularized by the former President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude…

Whether talk is of “killer robots”, “death by algorithm”, or an existential “threat to humanity”, much of the debate on how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect international affairs is conducted in broad strokes and grandiose terms.…

Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party will lose the next general election. The ruling Conservatives have presided over an era of low growth, rising prices, and failing public services, while being seen to repeatedly break the core bond of trust…

In 1848, a wave of revolutions swept across fifty European countries. Whilst many insurrections were driven by a liberal desire to overthrow aristocratic elites the underlying force was nationalism. 2024, I fear, will be 1848 redux: the…